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Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa — WisdomDeck honest review

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Letters to a Young Novelist

by Mario Vargas Llosa

The Nobel laureate on the craft: the tapeworm of vocation, persuasive power, style, narrator, time, levels of reality. Elegant and brief.

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Vocation is a tapeworm.
Persuasion is craft.
Choose the narrator deliberately.

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Vargas Llosa's letters.

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