La Verdad de Las Mentiras

Only literature has the techniques and the power to distill that delicate elixir of life: the truth hidden in the heart of human lies, states Vargas Llosa, referring to the twenty-five novels he studies in this work. In the accurate analysis of key 20th Century literary works, Vargas Llosa talks to us about the important role fiction and the act of reading play in the expansion of our fundamental universe. Some of the works discussed are: Manns Death in Venice, Joyces Dubliners, Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer, Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway, Faulkners Sanctuary, and Nabokovs Lolita.