Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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born
in Arequipa, Peru
March 28, 1936

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Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidious regime; and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comedic semi-autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho.

He is also a widely read and respected essayist, writing everything from newspaper opinion pieces to critical works on other writers, includ...more


Average rating: 3.89 · 45,788 ratings · 3,709 reviews · 138 distinct works · Similar authors
The Feast Of The Goat
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 6,621 ratings — published 2000 — 72 editions
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwr...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 5,738 ratings — published 1977 — 78 editions
Travesuras de la niña mala
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 7,034 ratings — published 2006 — 77 editions
La ciudad y los perros
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 4,412 ratings — published 1962 — 66 editions
The War of the End of the W...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 2,527 ratings — published 1981 — 60 editions
Pantaleón y las visitadoras
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 2,380 ratings — published 1973 — 47 editions
Conversation in the Cathedral
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 1,801 ratings — published 1969 — 43 editions
Death in the Andes
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 1,920 ratings — published 1993 — 48 editions
The Storyteller
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,459 ratings — published 1987 — 41 editions
In Praise of the Stepmother
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 1,798 ratings — published 1988 — 47 editions
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“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
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“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
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“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
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