| dc.description.abstract | The article discusses characteristics of the novel presented by the Peruvian
writer Mario Vargas Llosa - according to his words: "verbal representation of reality -
as a synthetic form, using and absorbing other genres in its uncontrollable pursuit to
embrace the whole of existing world. Its crucial characteristic becomes the disinterest
understood as rejecting any pedagogical, moral, or propaganda functions, as well as
remaining autonomous towards the world serving it as its pattern. The total novel - an
ideal, which in Vargas Llosa's opinion is approached by the great masterpieces, from
Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc, a classic of Catalonian prose, to Garcia Marquezs A Hundred
Years of Solitude - is characterized by its ambition to contrast the whole reality
with its equality full reflection, illusion of picture, using in its complexity all possibilities
offered by the model, according to the rule that "while each novelist creates based on
something, a total novelist creates based on everything”. Thus the total realism,
infinitely broader than its I9th-century variant, embraces simultaneously several orders
of the real world - historical, social, psychological, erotic, and spiritual - based on which
it builds the world of the novel consisting of its reflection an denial at the same time. | pl_PL |
