Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world's most respected and widely read living writers. His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with

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For all of the texts read, such issues are explored in terms not only of content but of style and form. What is distinctive about many modern texts, Booker clai

"Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Adam Parkes investigates the literary and cultural implications of the censorship encountered by several modern novelists in the early twentieth century. He sit