
The Storyteller
- 242 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1987
- 56 editions
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1 About this book
The Storyteller (Spanish: El Hablador) is a novel by Peruvian author and Literature Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. The story tells of Saúl Zuratas, a university student who leaves civilization and becomes a "storyteller" for the Machiguenga Native Americans. The novel thematizes the Westernization of indigenous peoples through missions and through anthropological studies, and questions the perceived notion that indigenous cultures are set in stone.
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- Relationships
- Indigenous peoples
- Storytelling
- Storytellers
- Peru
2 About Mario Vargas Llosa
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