GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of World Plays

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Example Questions

Example Question #231 : Identification

What Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate wrote the plays La Chunga; Pretty Eyes, Ugly Pictures; and The Madman of the Balconies?

Possible Answers:

Mario Vargas Llosa

Fernando Arrabal

Julio Cortázar

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sebastián Salazar Bondy

Correct answer:

Mario Vargas Llosa

Explanation:

This is Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His work (which includes novels and essays as well as drama) is often political and anti-nationalistic and is deeply invested in portraying power struggles between rulers and the poor or disenfranchised.

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