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Braulio Munoz. A Storyteller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism. Lanham, Maryland. Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. xi + 135 pages. $56.95 ($12.95 paper). ISBN 0-8476-9750-9 (9751-7 paper).
PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND CHAIR Of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Swarthmore College, Braulio Munoz has published two previous books: Tensions in Social Theory: Groundwork for a Future Moral Sociology (1993) and Sons of the Wind: The Search for Identity in Spanish American Indian Literature (1996). In his third book, A Storyteller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism, he proposes to explore not only Vargas Llosa's extensive work but also his discourse and his pragmatic relationship with Peruvian society as a whole.
According to the author, Vargas Llosa should be considered one of the "clearest...