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The Call of the Tribe Spiral-Bound | 2023-01-17

Mario Vargas Llosa John King (Translated by)

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The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel laureate, "tireless in his quest to probe the nature of the human animal" (Marie Arana, The Washington Post), maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the great ideological traumas of his disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution and alienation from the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre, the author who most inspired Vargas Llosa in his youth.

Writers like Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich A. Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, and Jean-François Revel helped the author enormously during those uneasy years. They showed him another school of thought that placed the individual before the tribe, nation, class, or party, and defended freedom of expression as a fundamental value for the exercise of democracy. The Call of the Tribe documents Vargas Llosa's engagement with their work and charts the evolution of his personal intellectual and philosophical ideology.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0374118051
Item Weight: 0.8 lbs
Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.0 x 8.6 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
Praise for Mario Vargas Llosa

"In the star-studded world of the Latin American novel, Mario Vargas Llosa is a supernova." --Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal

Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG.

John King is the coeditor, with Efraín Kristal, of The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa and has edited and translated several volumes of Vargas Llosa's essays, including Making Waves and Touchstones. He is an emeritus professor of Latin American cultural history at the University of Warwick, England.