Böcker av Mario Vargas Llosa

Med debutromanen Staden och hundarna nådde Mario Vargas Llosa genast internationella framgångar och boken blev en skandalsuccé. Nu väntar femtioårsjubileum, som firas med en ny och fullständig översättning. Cava, Boa och Rullen är tre kadetter vid...

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I Lockrop berättar Mario Vargas Llosa sin intellektuella historia. Boken är en bildningsresa där författaren återvänder till böckerna som format honom. Han finner en livslång strid mellan lockropet från den egna stammen och västs universella ideal...

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Med debutromanen Staden och hundarna nådde Mario Vargas Llosa genast internationella framgångar och boken blev en skandalsuccé. Nu väntar femtioårsjubileum, som firas med en ny och fullständig översättning. Cava, Boa och Rullen är tre kadetter vid...

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'A comic novel on the grand scale written with tremendous confidence and verve. Mario, 18-year-old law student and radio news-editor, falls scandalously for his Aunt Julia, the 32-year-old divorced wife of a cousin, and the progressively lunatic s...

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Mario Vargas Llosa contrapone con extraordinario virtuosismo técnico dos mundos que parecen vivir enfre ntados, el de las sociedades modernas y el de los pueblos que viven en armonía con la naturaleza. A su vez conduce al lector a un viaje vertigi...

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Década de los setenta en una pequeña ciudad de California. "Bean" Holladay tiene doce años y su hermana Liz quince cuando su madre las abandona "para encontrarse a sí misma" y triunfar en la música. Aunque les deja dinero para ...

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The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and...

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Edición definitiva y revisada por el autor de una de las mejores novelas en español del siglo XX. Preparada por la Real Academia Española y por la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibía el Premio Bib...

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Direktör Enrique Cardenas tar på sitt kontor emot chefredaktören från den peruanska skvallertidningen Destapes en eftermiddag i Lima och hans liv blir aldrig mer sig likt. Rolando Garro, som chefredaktören heter, hävdar att han i sin ägo har foton...

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Historias de conspiraciones internacionales e intereses encontrados, en los años de la Guerra Fria, cuyos ecos resuenan hasta la actualidad

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La ciudad y los perros es la novela con la que Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura y Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, alcanzó el reconocimiento internacional. La ciudad y los perros no solamente es un ataque contra la crueldad ejercida a u...

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Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura y Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, relata el fin de una era dando voz al impecable e implacable general Trujillo, apodado el Chivo, y al sosegado y hábil doctor Balaguer (sempiterno presidente de la Repú...

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"Berättar lättsamt elegant och medryckande och lyckas göra sol-och-vårkvinnan till en människa av kött och blod . Mer än en mansdröm framstår stygga flickan som en bild av äventyret och spänningen . ja varför inte som en bild av själva fiktionens ...

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Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms ...

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A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows betwe...

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A tyrant's last days are the focus of this magisterial, long-awaited novel, as Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime in the Dominican Republic and the terrible birth of a democracy.

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In a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle. As he stares at a picture of a tribal storyteller who holds a circle of Machiguenga Indians entranced, he is overcome by the eerie ...

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With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters. The mysterious natur...

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Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe--Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Gr...

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Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El Pais, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last deca...

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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosa's beguiling novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to b...

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Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, it embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragi...

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On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse t...

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The action of "The Time of the Hero," Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru. There, four angry cadets who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to...

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This critical analysis examines the character of Emma Bovary, traces the gestation and birth of the novel, Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources.

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This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army--to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Capt...

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"A glittering . . . novel about the revolutionary temperament--and the nature of fiction . . . . The backdrop is Mr. Vargas Llosa's native Peru; the setting, the near future, in which the country has become a battleground for the major world ...

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Near an air-force base in Peru in the 1950s, a young airman is found tortured and murdered. The subsequent investigation makes an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery. In his ninth novel, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa turns to detective fictio...

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The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind t...

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A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and futureThroughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examin...

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