The Storyteller
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Plot Summary of The Storyteller

"Mario Vargas Llosa, himself the main character of this novel, writes about a friend he knew in college, Saul Zuratas, who was a passionate student of a tribe in the Amazonas jungle, the Machiguengas. The strong relationship they both had has desintegrated thirty years later, but when Mario is visiting a Machiguenga photo exposition in Florence, he finds a character in one of them which seems too familiar: a white man telling stories to other machiguengas as if he were part of these people. Could it be Saul?
Mario himself becomes interested in the Machiguengas when years later he's a TV host of a cultural show and finally decides to write this story.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Augusto Wong Campos, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of The Storyteller

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Inside culture (main char) - American Indian
Other aspects: - best friends
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Outside culture (society) - Hispanic
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - writer
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality - Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 (a good amount)
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - South

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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