num_pages: 136
description: Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet—he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
language: English
title: Letters to a Young Novelist
titlecomplete: Letters to a Young Novelist
genres: Literature, Books About Books, Essays, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Nobel Prize, Writing, Literary Criticism, Contemporary, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3502
publisher: Picador