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Voici quarante ans, en 1966, les Éditions Gallimard publiaient le premier roman d'un jeune auteur péruvien totalement inconnu en France, mais qui venait d'obtenir Barcelone le prix Biblioteca Breve, l'un des plus prestigieux du monde hispanique. La ville et les chiens, qui parut sous la couverture étoilée de la collection "La Croix du Sud", a été perçu au premier abord comme un nouveau pari de son responsable, Roger Caillois, qui nous avait fait découvrir tant de merveilles de l'Amérique latine. Or bientôt la critique ne parla plus de "pari" mais plutôt de grande découverte, car le roman remporta un succès foudroyant auprès des lecteurs de l'Hexagone. Mario Vargas Llosa les avait, en effet, aussitôt séduits par la force de son imaginaire, par la beauté de sa langue et par sa surprenante maîtrise de l'art du roman.

Este estuche, de edición limitada, contiene tres libros de referencia en la historia de la literatura actual, tres novelas que han marcado la carrera del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa: La ciudad y los perros, La Fiesta del Chivo y Conversacion en La Catedral.

Este volumen es el resultado de los cursos que el merecedor del Nobel impartió en universidades de Estados Unidos sobre el movimiento indigenista a partir de la biografía de José María Arguedas. Ante la tarea indigenista de mostrar el desarraigo de los pueblos peruanos, Vargas Llosa mantiene una postura escéptica; la contraposición que estructura la narrativa de Arguedas en Perú autóctono y Perú occidentalizado se reelabora en una nueva dicotomía: la nación "primera" y autóctona desaparece.

Este volumen es el resultado de los cursos que el merecedor del Nobel impartió en universidades de Estados Unidos sobre el movimiento indigenista a partir de la biografía de José María Arguedas. Ante la tarea indigenista de mostrar el desarraigo de los pueblos peruanos, Vargas Llosa mantiene una postura escéptica; la contraposición que estructura la narrativa de Arguedas en Perú autóctono y Perú occidentalizado se reelabora en una nueva dicotomía: la nación "primera" y autóctona desaparece.

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil...

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his "Aunt Julia", the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter''s rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist''s affair.

Compilatorio de la colección Palabra e Imagen que recoge dos de los trabajaos más representativos de esta colección: Viejas Historias de Castilla la Vieja de Miguel Delibes e ilustrado por el fotógrafo Ramon Masats y Los Cachorros de Mario Vargas Llosa con fotografias de Xavier Miserachs.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosas only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosas domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where lifes dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners.The title work, The Cubs, tells the story of the carefree boyhood of PP Cuellar and his friends, and of PPs bizarre accident and tragic coming of age.In a candid and perceptive foreword to this collection of early writing, Vargas Llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the artist.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The Way to Paradise interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his grandmother, Flora Tristan. In 1844, Flora embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers and womens rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to paint his primitive masterpieces. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel.A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The Way to Paradise shows Mario Vargas Llosa at the peak of his powers.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In Praise of the Stepmother is the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso. Their family life together seems to be a happy one. Rigoberto, an insurance company manager, spends his time preening himself for his wife and collecting erotic art. But while Lucrecia is devoted to him, she has her own needs, and soon finds herself the object of young Alfonsos attention.With meticulous observation and seductive skill, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mysterious nature of happiness. Little by little, the harmony of his characters is darkened by the shadow of perversion.If you enjoyed In Praise of the Stepmother, you might also like Mario Vargas Llosas The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.

In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Perus Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission - he must find females for the amorous recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts to spread, and he finds himself battling against his wife, religious zealots and the Army that gave him the mission in the first place.Through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, Mario Vargas Llosas Captain Pantoja and the Special Service combines political satire with humour, morality with uproarious sexuality.