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Mario Vargas Llosa


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
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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 worksSimilar authors
Travesuras de la niña mala

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The Feast of the Goat

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La ciudad y los perros

4.15 avg rating — 21,938 ratings — published 1962 — 236 editions
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The War of the End of the W...

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Pantaleón y las visitadoras

3.97 avg rating — 10,580 ratings — published 1973 — 162 editions
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Conversation in the Cathedral

4.35 avg rating — 8,764 ratings — published 1969 — 150 editions
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El sueño del celta

3.82 avg rating — 8,462 ratings — published 2010 — 103 editions
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In Praise of the Stepmother

3.44 avg rating — 8,643 ratings — published 1988 — 125 editions
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Death in the Andes

3.70 avg rating — 7,708 ratings — published 1993 — 123 editions
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“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

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

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