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Mario Vargas Llosa

Born

in Arequipa, Peru

March 28, 1936

Website

http://www.mvargasllosa.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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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

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La peste ha sido a lo largo de la historia una de las peores pesadillas de la humanidad. El coronavirus será una pandemia pasajera. Lo que no pasará es el miedo a la muerte, que nos acompaña como una sombra

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Average rating: 3.99 · 250,476 ratings · 22,417 reviews · 448 distinct works • Similar authors

	Travesuras de la niña mala 4.11 avg rating — 38,523 ratings — published 2006 — 169 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 33,320 ratings — published 2000 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La ciudad y los perros 4.15 avg rating — 21,938 ratings — published 1962 — 236 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane (Translator) 3.94 avg rating — 19,605 ratings — published 1977 — 212 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of the End of the World 4.24 avg rating — 10,373 ratings — published 1981 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pantaleón y las visitadoras 3.97 avg rating — 10,580 ratings — published 1973 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversation in the Cathedral 4.35 avg rating — 8,764 ratings — published 1969 — 150 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El sueño del celta 3.82 avg rating — 8,462 ratings — published 2010 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of the Stepmother 3.44 avg rating — 8,643 ratings — published 1988 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in the Andes 3.70 avg rating — 7,708 ratings — published 1993 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa (?)

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

tags: romance

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“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mart -2019 Modern Klasik Okuması

Aşağıdaki kitaplardan hangisini Mart ayında grupla birlikte okumak istersiniz?

Jack London - Martin Eden - 1909, 517 sayfa

55 votes 61.1%

Kenzaburō Ōe - Kişisel Bir Sorun - 1964, 232 sayfa

24 votes 26.7%

Mario Vargas Llosa - And Dağlarında Terör - 1993, 264 sayfa

11 votes 12.2%

90 total votes

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