Recover the Past, Imagine the Future in the Andes: Arguedas and Vargas Llosa



Three-Week course, first session



This course will examine two key attempts to recover the past as threshold to the future (The Inca Garcilaso and Jose Maria Arguedas) and the response their project has received by Mario Vargas Llosa in his La utopía arcaica. (1/2 unit)



Required Text: José María Arguedas, Los ríos profundos (any available paper back edition); Mario Vargas Llosa, La ciudad y los perros (any available paper back edition); Mario Vargas Llosa, La utopía arcaica (any available paper back edition).