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«C''est à Paris que j’ai écrit mes premiers romans, découvert l’Amérique latine et commencé à me sentir latino-américain ; j’y ai vu la publication de mes premiers livres ; j’y ai appris, grâce à Fla

Eine ungezügelte Liebes- und Lebensgeschichte. Fünfhundert Dollar – monatlich! Der Transportunternehmer Felícito denkt überhaupt nicht daran, auf die Schutzgeldforderung der peruanischen Mafia einzu

«C''est à Paris que j’ai écrit mes premiers romans, découvert l’Amérique latine et commencé à me sentir latino-américain ; j’y ai vu la publication de mes premiers livres ; j’y ai appris, grâce à Fla

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...

The new essay collection by the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist and social critic.In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today.Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot - whose treatise Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished - Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate.But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary provocateur, here vividly translated by John King, provides an impassioned and essential critique of our time and culture.

«C''est à Paris que j’ai écrit mes premiers romans, découvert l’Amérique latine et commencé à me sentir latino-américain ; j’y ai vu la publication de mes premiers livres ; j’y ai appris, grâce à Fla

Es sind die späten fünfziger Jahre in Lima, Miguel liebt Flora, aber er fürchtet, dass sein Kumpel Rubén sie ihm ausspannen wird. Als die Clique, »die Raubvögel«, beisammensitzt, fordert Miguel den R

Edición crítica con estudio introductorio y guía de lectura. Si en el contexto de las actitudes, las tramas, los modelos de personajes y la conciencia crítica, los cuentos de Los jefes significan un anuncio de lo que seran sus novelas posteriores, en el ambito del estilo ocurre lo mismo. Las audacias tecnicas que descubrimos desde La ciudad y los perros, y comprobamos aumentadas, al menos hasta La guerra del fin del mundo, en los años ochenta, comienzan a vislumbrarse en esos relatos que piden, ademas, espacios mas amplios. Por otro lado, frente al realismo magico, que triunfa en la decada de los sesenta, y es considerado por la critica como un modelo propiamente hispanoamericano, la escritura de Vargas Llosa huye de elementos miticos o fantasticos y se instala mas bien en un realismo que trata de dar una vision totalizadora de la realidad, y concentra todos los esfuerzos en los logros tecnicos, antes que en los anecdoticos o argumentales.

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...

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever."Financial TimesGuatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas.Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.

Vargas Llosas masterwork.New York Times Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia. Suspicion, paranoia and blackmail have become part of life. The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the degradation and frustration that has taken over their town.In this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. It is about identity, the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a nation and its people.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Mario Vargas Llosas A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin Americas most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, and describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for a free-market economy.A deeply absorbing look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous writer with strong political commitments, A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.

In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the great ideological traumas of his disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution and departure from the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre, the author who most inspired Vargas Llosa in his youth.Writers like Adam Smith, Friedrich A. Hayek, Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin helped the author navigate through these uneasy years of intellectual formation. They showed him another school of thought that placed the individual before the tribe, nation, class or party, and defended freedom of expression as a fundamental value for the exercise of democracy. The Call of the Tribe documents Vargas Llosas engagement with their work and charts the evolution of his personal and philosophical ideology.Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the worlds greatest living novelists, but, as Clive James wrote in Cultural Amnesia, his true strength is undoubtedly in the essay.

¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor? Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiara todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmatica e inquieta, lo arrastrara fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones. Testigos de epocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, Paris, Tokio o Madrid, que aqui son mucho mas que escenarios, ambos personajes veran sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hara crecer la intensidad del relato pagina a pagina hasta propiciar una verdadera fusion del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas. Creando una admirable tension entre lo comico y lo tragico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega con la realidad y la ficcion para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueño de mil caras, como la niña mala. Pasion y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... ¿Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor?

Zavalita y el zambo Ambrosio conversan en La Catedral. Se encuentran en Perú, durante el «ochenio» dictatorial del general Manuel A. Odría. Unas cuantas cervezas y un río de palabras en libertad para

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign. In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle (which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized.

En este relato de prosa experimental publicado en 1967, Vargas Llosa retrata a la alta burguesía limeña con una narración amarga y a la vez nostálgica.

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania''s own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo''s reign. In 1961, Trujillo''s decadent inner circle (which includes Urania''s soon-to-be disgraced father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In The Feast of the Goat Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized.

Les premiers romans de Mario Vargas Llosa – écrivain espagnol d’origine péruvienne né à Arequipa en 1936 - s’inspirent d’une jeunesse mouvementée : les relations difficiles avec son père, le collège