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  <title><![CDATA[El Paraiso En La Otra Esquina/the Way to Paradise]]></title>
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  <default_description>A century passed between the birth of Flora Trist&#225;n and the death of her grandson, the great painter Paul Gauguin. They never met, but both dreamed, each in their own way, with a better world. With this novel we get to know these two great personalities that had similar characteristics: an impressive stubbornness and a bulletproof determination and motivation.   &lt;P&gt;Description in Spanish: Dos vidas: la de Flora Trist&#225;n, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasi&#243;n por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahit&#237; en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones. Dos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que s&#243;lo ve en &#233;l un instrumento de dominio masculino y la de Gauguin, que lo considera una fuerza vital imprescindible puesta al servicio de su creatividad. &#191;Qu&#233; tienen en com&#250;n esas dos vidas? Esto es lo que Vargas Llosa pone de relieve en esta novela: el mundo de utop&#237;as que fue el siglo XIX. Un nexo de uni&#243;n entre dos personajes opuestos que desvelan un deseo com&#250;n: el de alcanzar un para&#237;so donde sea posible la felicidad para los seres humanos.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tres estrellas porque no hay ganas de ejercitar el cerebro. Siguiendo la linea de algunas otras de sus novelas (La Guerra del Fin del Mundo, La Fiesta del Chivo), Vargas Llosa nos entrega otra mas basada en personajes y hechos de la vida real. <br/><br/>La verdad no se si es mas dificil inventarse u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75597975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[El Paraíso en la otra Esquina es una oportunidad maravillosa para adentrarse en la vida de un aventurero, un romántico, un poeta, y un artista: Paul Gauguin.  Vargas Llosa nos presenta una deliciosa y espesa hipótesis acerca de lo que el pintor experimentó, por fuera y por dentro, cuando escapó...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61560024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Novela interesante sobre la vida de Paul guaguin, y su abuela una mujer libre pensadora, revolucionaria, pacifista y feminista, que lucho por fundar la union obrera, un partido proletario, que buscaba la reinvindicación de ese &quot;cuarto estado&quot;, no liberado en la revolución francesa, escri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50318728">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>El Paraíso en la Otra Esquina</em> trata sobre las vidas de dos personajes históricos que vivieron en épocas diferentes.  Son dos vidas fascinantes, y cualquiera de ellas habría bastado para llenar un buen libro.  Pero la sinergia que resulta de combinar ambas historias, contándolas en capítulos al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58821307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11988309">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people oppressed by a Christian morale that systematically suffocated all free cultures of the world]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two parallel stories based on the lives of two real people:  Flora Tristán, a socialist revolutionary in 19th century France, and her grandson, who she never met, the painter Paul Gauguin.<br/><br/>Overall the book is very good.  The parallel between these two figures are striking, and their comm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11988309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well written and structured...I think no reader can get enough of the two parallel stories, of the two lives of Paul Gauguin, famous painter, and Flora Tristan, his grandmother and feminist. <br/>I loved (again) the fact that Vargas Llosa expresses directly his thoughts towards his heroes. It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71263749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of the better historical fiction books I've read in a very long time. Llosa telling the story of two family members that are two generations apart, in different parts of the world, with completely different backgrounds that somehow are linked in sentiment, is difficult feat to pull off,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49162355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53927.El_Paraiso_En_La_Otra_Esquina_the_Way_to_Paradise" title="El Paraiso En La Otra Esquina/the Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa">El Paraiso En La Otra Esquina/the Way to Paradise</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ “El paraíso en la otra esquina”, la mas reciente novela de Mario Vargas Llosa, es una de esas raras joyas literarias.  En ella, Vargas Llosa narra la vida de dos soñadores utópicos que buscaron la libertad absoluta: Flora Tristán, en la justicia social; y su nieto Paul Gaugin en el placer e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20074157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a bit redundant at times, but full of intriguing contrasts]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been wanting to read The Bad Girl but this fell into my hands instead. I liked it a lot and will certainly read more by this author.  Most of the reviews I've read suggest that the Gaugin story was more interesting than the Flora Tristan story. The stories had the opposite effect on me.  I fin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18480025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[TBD]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a literary imagining of the life of Paul Guagin (sp) and his grandmother Flora Tristan.  Both people lived lives which included visions of paradise, Flora sought a social revolution and worked tirelessly to form workers committees toward this end.  Gaugin imagined a return to more prima...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3129138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this made me want to be gauguin so so bad. and that's a good writer who can make you want to be a syphilitic racist pedophile who abandoned his family to live in a hut in the middle of nowhere. but on some level i understand how the desire to make art can make you totally crazy. one star off because...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32035218">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad, my first book by this author - I would read more by him, and this book was worth reading, but I didn't necessarily love it the whole way through. The story alternates between Paul Gaugin's life and the life of his grandmother, Flora, trying to create social change in France. I was more curi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5503737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good story with interesting structure. I haven't read any other Vargas Llosa yet, but I get the sense that it is not his best. I feel like the profile of Flora Tristan is a bit forced compared to his depiction of Paul Gauguin, like he doesn't really understand the female mind in the same way he in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/683211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Se nos cuentan dos historias aparentemente inconexas con protagonistas distanciados tanto en el espacio como en el tiempo... estableciendo una relación más alla de la historia. <br/>Muy buena la ambientación y la personalización de Gauguin, algo inferior la de Flora Tristán. Aunque, para ser u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41779">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very well done story which plays out the ends of the lives of painter Paul Gauguin and his grandmother, Flora, against one another.  This book gave me a whole new take on Gauguin, and that´s hard to do.  I still think he was a bastard, but this book makes a more favorable reading seem feasible to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32449900">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, well... I enjoyed researching Gauguin's paintings while reading this, learning about the influence of his art. The historical aspect was a bit harder to absorb other than generalities. In the end, I stopped reading because it was becoming tedious.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 15 09:50:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this an very interesting read as a historical and philosophical novel, but as a story itself, it was a slow read. The juxtaposition of Flora Tristan's life with her grandson, Paul Gauguin, was fascinating but certainly slowed down the story line.<br/>]]></body>
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