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Los jefes / Los cachorros/ The Chiefs and the Cubs
These stories contain the trademarks that later would denote Mario Vargas Llosas masterpieces and make him a pioneer of Latin American Literature; they are shocking and surprising, and contain his unmistakable style. Through the teenage protagonists of both works, he ponders upon tyranny and violence of a society in which one cannot let down the expectations of others. Wit...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
March 1st 2007
by Punto De Lectura
(first published 1971)
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Si algo recuerdo de la primer novela que leí de Mario Vargas Llosa es la forma como identifiqué a los personajes de La Ciudad y Los Perros y los pude mapear en mi universo conocido incluyendo lugares y ambientes.
Tal vez fue por el momento en que la leí y que los personajes tenían aproximadamente mi edad sin embargo ahora que regresé a leer de nuevo a este autor me encuentro con la misma sensación y aprecio más su capacidad de meterme en el relato hasta los huesos.
Una vez más vemos la vida de l...more
Tal vez fue por el momento en que la leí y que los personajes tenían aproximadamente mi edad sin embargo ahora que regresé a leer de nuevo a este autor me encuentro con la misma sensación y aprecio más su capacidad de meterme en el relato hasta los huesos.
Una vez más vemos la vida de l...more
Catching up on some earlier Vargas Llosa. The title novella recounts the adolescence and, later, the self-destructive young adulthood of ""P.P."" Cuellar, who as a boy was attacked by a Great Dane in the locker room of his Catholic boys' school and partially castrated ("". . . the shits, the my Gods, the get outs, the screams, the get losts, the get goings, the brothers' desperation, their terrible fright""). Though handsome, he obviously keeps himself dis...more
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My first book that I've read entirely in a foreign language, so it's an interesting experience for me just because of that. This is a collection of Llosa's first short stories, and he admits in the foreward that they are not his best work. But they are the beginnings of an author whose work has now earned him a Nobel Literature Prize. The stories all take place in mid 20th century Peru. "Los Jefes" chronicles a student strike; "Los Cachorros" is a story with a chaotic str...more
All these stories deal with youth in Peru. Boys have cliques and become so dependent on one another... I dunno, all I can say is that I am so happy to be gay! There are several rites of passage and pseudo machismo... I am glad I did without; really glad I didn't have to deal with these things. Most of the stories, particularly "The Cubs" and "On Sunday" are poignant (The titular work is perhaps comperable to the great novellas, like "Ivan Illych" and "Death in ...more
¡Que tiempos aquellos! Una historia de juventud y escolares, llena de amistad, aventura y madurez.
Envuelta por el machismo de la sociedad, nuestro cuate Cuellar el "Pichula" es el elegido en la historia para llevar un pesado papel: La castración por Judas, el perro de la escuela.
Con toda su repercusion y marginación sociales esta historia se encargará de reflejar la personalidad colectiva del grupo de amigos y del barrio Limeño hasta llevar a Cuellar a su fatal desenlace....more
Envuelta por el machismo de la sociedad, nuestro cuate Cuellar el "Pichula" es el elegido en la historia para llevar un pesado papel: La castración por Judas, el perro de la escuela.
Con toda su repercusion y marginación sociales esta historia se encargará de reflejar la personalidad colectiva del grupo de amigos y del barrio Limeño hasta llevar a Cuellar a su fatal desenlace....more
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If someone ask: 'What did you remember most from high school?' What would be the answer? First snog? Skipping classes? First love?
Reading 'The Leaders' in this Llosa's short stories brought me back to the days I spent in a private Methodist High School. Our Headmaster was our common enemy, in our graduation book someone even mentioned his saliva-bursts when conducted tireless speeches about our 'disobedience'.
One day, out of nowhere, he stated a rule that none of the st...more
Reading 'The Leaders' in this Llosa's short stories brought me back to the days I spent in a private Methodist High School. Our Headmaster was our common enemy, in our graduation book someone even mentioned his saliva-bursts when conducted tireless speeches about our 'disobedience'.
One day, out of nowhere, he stated a rule that none of the st...more
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Me encantó, especialmente Los cachorros (aunque me dejó triste: me pasé todo el libro esperando que le fuera bien al protagonista). Los cuentos me atraparon enseguida y tuve que dejar pasar un poco de tiempo entre cada uno para absorber lo que acababa de leer: me dejaron pensando. Probablemente lea todo de nuevo dentro de unos días.
As some random person told me, Vargas Llosa stories are full of hopelessness, they leave a bad taste in our mouth, or rather in our heart. He tells his-story as it is, no suddenly saving his characters, just like an imparcial, unfeeling judge.
In the first collection of stories, "Los Jefes", there is always some mischievous twist. Only one of them has what we consider a 'happy ending', but all are beautifully written.
The second part "Los cachorros" is longer and...more
In the first collection of stories, "Los Jefes", there is always some mischievous twist. Only one of them has what we consider a 'happy ending', but all are beautifully written.
The second part "Los cachorros" is longer and...more
Bolano singled out "The Cubs" (along with Cortazar's "The Pursuer," Marquez's "No One Writes to the Colonel," and Donoso's "Hell Has No Limits") as one of the most important works of the Latin American Boom period. I wasn't impressed with the few later works I'd read by Vargas Llosa, but this early novella is technically dazzling - written in first and third person simultaneously, fluidly switching between individual and group perspectives and back again w...more
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It seems sort of fitting that the first Vargas Llosa book I pick up is a small collection of short stories, the first of his translated into English. "The Cubs", the first story, refers to a group of children (the Cubs in question), one of which has been castrated under accidental circumstances. The broken English makes the text flow slowly, at least for me trying to read it on the bus while ignoring the crazy lady whose purse needs an entire seat for itself while her kids snore loud...more
Seven short stories of Peruvian life and machista culture, six of which were written while the author was still a student. My favourites were "The Challenge", "On Sunday" and "The Cubs". The title story is written in a very interesting style, with the story being narrated by all the residents of the barrio 'dissolving into individual voices and coming together again in one that gives expression to the entire group'.
مجموعه ی خشم و کدورت های شخصی اون هم به سبک پرویی,همین
A different time, a different style for Mario, but good.
I connected more with this novel the second time around. Vargas Llosa's experimentation with pacing is impressive, to say the least, because you just cannot stop reading. It sucks you in and carries you along as if in a whirlwind. I was more sympathetic to Cuéllar's character this time, perhaps because I understood the plot better than I did when I read it in Spanish (the original is so full of slang that it is difficult even for a native or near-native speaker who doesn't hang around with a lot...more
Great piece of literature
Disappointing
"los jefes" are mostly short stories involving violence and someone standing up for themselves. i didn't really get the last one, but a few were very good.
"los cachorros" is a short book in itself about a boy castrated by a dog. it does not follow the rules of grammar. for example, there may be dialogue between two characters, not necessarily identified, and a narrator comment, all within one sentence without any quotes.
"los cachorros" is a short book in itself about a boy castrated by a dog. it does not follow the rules of grammar. for example, there may be dialogue between two characters, not necessarily identified, and a narrator comment, all within one sentence without any quotes.
Mi profesor de matematicas en el colegio nos leia escritores latinoamericanos cuando habia terminado de ensenarnos la materia del dia. Cuando nos leyo "los cachorros" me fascino, me gusto mucho el estilo, pues no se parecia a nada que hubiera leido antes.
Vargas Llosa logra, como nunca, crear un personaje entrañable y rodearlo de un universo a su altura; sin embargo, como siempre, se apodera del libro una suerte de desgano literario, cayendo en un final insípido y decepcionante.
Okay, I haven't finished Los cachorros, but Los jefes was good. several short stories dealing with struggles for power in sort of unlikely situations. Los cachorros is also short stories, but I am less clear what I am reading about.
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I was IN the story, it was awesome. I wish I'd taken spanish this year with the teacher who covered this book to really get into it.
awal karir MVLL, dari muda sudah kelihatan kualitasnya. meskipun dia emang paling dahsyat kalo suruh nulis yang tebel2 banget
Well-written, especially considering how young V-L was when he wrote them, but not particularly my cup of tea.
Es un buen libro. Novela corta sobre la vida de unos niños desde pequeños hasta grandes. Pichulita Cuellar.
a painful life of a young guy - totally and utterly depressing!
Leido en el colegio, casi a la fuerza, pero es muy buena
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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 insidiou...more
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