Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque

by M. Keith Booker

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world's most respected and widely read living writers. His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book does that, analyzing Vargas Llosa's place in modern and postmodern criticism.

302 pages, ebook

First published October 1, 1991

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this text to be highly provocative in regards to its approach of comparing medieval and modern literature in the way the Carnivalesque discourse grotesquely reveals the inconsistencies within political and social arenas. The structure and order of all forms of terror, reverence, piety and etiquette connected with it are all suspended in one way or another in Carnivalesque literature.

In essence, I read this text focusing predominately on the Carnivalesque authors, and thus may have altered my perception of the work in its entirety. However, I found this text to be insightful and useful in my research.

[Rabbit]

Super awesome.