Mario Vargas Llosa
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now divorced, seeks a new mate who can support her in high style. She finds instead her libidinous nephew, and their affair shocks both famiy and community.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Santillana
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
"La aventura que narra esta novela empieza en el Congo en 1903 y termina en una cárcel de Londres, una mañana de 1916. Aquí se cuenta la peripecia vital de un hombre de leyenda: el irlandés Roger Casement. Héroe y villano, traidor y libertario, moral e inmoral, su figura múltiple se apaga y renace tras su muerte. Casement fue uno de los primeros europeos en denunciar los horrores del colonialismo"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic--and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy...
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 4/1
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Four cadets form a secret group to beat the confinement of their military academy. This sets off a chain of events that starts with a theft and ends in murder.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the uprising in the Brazilian backlands that almost reversed the history of the continent. It is the story of an apocalyptic prophet and the state he created - Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth, to prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and their like.
9) The bad girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Presents the story of a love affair between a Peruvian translator and an adventurous and independent woman, "the bad girl," as it unfolds over the course of forty years, from Lima to London, Paris, Tokyo, and Madrid.
11) El hablador
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
Español
Description
With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other -our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment. Steering the reader in a vertiginous journey through the collective mind of the Machiguenga Indians, Vargas Llosa expounds, once again, on one of his obsessions: the role fiction plays in the life of humanity. Description in Spanish: ''La imagen...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Pérez Galdós es un autor esencial en la literatura española contemporánea. En este ensayo, a partir del análisis de sus novelas, de sus obras teatrales y de los Episodios nacionales, Mario Vargas Llosa crea un perfil completo, personal y sugerente del escritor español. Nadie como el Nobel peruano es capaz de leer de manera tan sagaz y con tanta libertad y pasión la obra de un creador.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable project. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
"No existe en la historia de la literatura una parábola más sencilla y luminosa que la de Sherezada y Sahrigar para explicar la razón de ser de la ficción en la vida de los seres humanos ... Para Sherezada contar cuentos que capturen la atención del Rey es cuestión de vida o muerte. Si Sahrigar se desinteresa o se aburre de sus historias, será entregada al verdugo con las primeras luces del alba. Ese peligro mortal aguza su fantasía y la lleva,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
18) La casa verde
Author
Series
Narrativa actual volume 49
Publisher
RBA Editores
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
Español
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"La perfección absoluta no parece de este mundo, ni siquiera en obras artísticas de creadores que, como Borges, estuvieron más cerca de lograrla. Esta colección de artículos, conferencias, reseñas y notas da testimonio de más de medio siglo de lecturas de un autor que ha sido para mí, desde que leí sus primeros cuentos y ensayos en la Lima de los años cincuenta, una fuente inagotable de placer intelectual. Muchas veces lo he releído y,...
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