Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian-Spanish novelist, essayist, journalist and politician; a leading figure of Latin American literature and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Notable works include The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Feast of the Goat.
Books
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1. Aunt Julia And The Script Writer
Set in 1950s Lima, the novel follows a young radio announcer whose illicit romance with his aunt-by-marriage unfolds alongside his career writing soap operas, while the outlandish, increasingly deranged serials of a flamboyant Bolivian scriptwriter provide a parallel comic counterpoint; the book mixes autobiographical detail, satire, and melodrama to examine the collision of love and art, the porous boundary between life and fiction, and the absurdities of mass culture.
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2. La Orgía Perpetua
Flaubert y 'Madame Bovary
A lively, erudite essay that examines the genesis, technique and cultural impact of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, tracing how its meticulous realism, ironic detachment and stylistic rigor transformed the modern novel; it explores the author’s obsessive pursuit of exactitude, the psychological complexity of his characters, the moral and legal scandal provoked by its publication, and the work’s enduring influence on literary taste and narrative form.
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