Mario Vargas Llosa

Born

in Arequipa, Peru

March 28, 1936

Website

http://www.mvargasllosa.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Flaubert, Balzac, Faulkner, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Sartre, Malraux

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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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Mario Vargas Llosa’s books

Average rating: 3.96 · 157,121 ratings · 12,520 reviews · 243 distinct works • Similar authors

	Travesuras de la niña mala 4.06 avg rating — 23,396 ratings — published 2006 — 115 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) 4.24 avg rating — 20,202 ratings — published 2000 — 109 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 4.11 avg rating — 13,894 ratings — published 1962 — 139 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) 3.91 avg rating — 14,044 ratings — published 1977 — 129 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 3.96 avg rating — 7,306 ratings — published 1973 — 101 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 4.21 avg rating — 7,357 ratings — published 1981 — 95 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 by Mario Vargas Llosa, Gregory Rabassa (Translator) 4.31 avg rating — 5,560 ratings — published 1969 — 84 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 3.74 avg rating — 5,597 ratings — published 2010 — 36 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 by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 5,287 ratings — published 1993 — 77 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 by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane (Translator) 3.43 avg rating — 5,817 ratings — published 1988 — 78 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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Książka miesiąca czerwca

Fale | Virginia Woolf

2 votes 33.3%

Zielony Dom | Mario Vargas Llosa

1 vote 16.7%

Rozmowa w "Katedrze" | Mario Vargas Llosa

1 vote 16.7%

Wyłamię się i będę czytać coś innego

1 vote 16.7%

Syzyfowe prace | Stefan Żeromski

1 vote 16.7%

Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad

0 votes 0.0%

To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf

0 votes 0.0%

6 total votes

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