Mario Vargas Llosa/Josef Skvorecky, Vol. 17, No. 1

Mario Vargas Llosa/Josef Skvorecky, Vol. 17, No. 1 Synopsis

Dane Johnson, Introduction: Chased by Life, Politics, Demons: Flying to Fiction/Luis Rebaza-Soraluz, Demons and Lies: Motivation and Form in Mario Vargas Llosa/Mario Vargas Llosa, The Trumpet of Deya/Mario Vargas Llosa, A Bullfight in the Andes/Efrain Kristal, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: A Transitional Novel/Elizabeth Dipple, Outside Looking In: Aunt Julia and Vargas Llosa/Alex Zisman, Out of Failure Comes Success: Autobiography and Testimony in A Fish in the Water/Alex Zisman, A Mario Vargas Llosa Checklist/Steve Horowitz, Introduction: The Bittersweet Vision of Josef Skvorecky and a Selected Bibliography of Works by and about Him/Sam Solecki, The Last Decade: An Interview with Josef Skvorecky/Josef Skvorecky, Three Bachelors in a Fiery Furnace, a short story/Josef Skvorecky, Authors, Critics, Reviewers, a lecture/Josef Skvorecky, Keynote Address on Eastern European Literature in Transition/Lubomir Doruzka, A Genial Gossipmonger/Mila Sakova-Pierce, The Cowards: Josef Skvorecky and His Contributions to Czech Humorist Literature/Josef Jarab, This Thing, The Bass Saxophone, Is Anything But Ordinary/Edward Galligan, The Engineer of Human Souls: Skvorecky's Comic Vision/James Grove, Place and Placelessness in Josef Skvorecky's Dvorak in Love/Helena Kosek, American Themes in Skvorecky's Work: The Bride from Texas/Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Josef Skvorecky's Variation on American Themes: The Bride from Texas/Robert L.McLaughlin, A Josef Skvorecky Checklist/Margaret Wehr, The Culture of Everyday Venality: Or a Life in the Book Industry