Name: Cuentos (in Spanish)
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher

Austral

Year

2025

Language

Spanish

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19x12.5 cm

ISBN13

9789566180470

Edited in

Chile

Synopsis "Cuentos (in Spanish)"

Los cuentos recogidos en esta edición, publicados por primera vez en 1959, sirvieron como antecedente para la construcción de las obras maestras de Vargas Llosa. Muchos de los elementos técnicos y narrativos que caracterizan la prosa del gran escritor peruano aparecen en estas primeras piezas breves: «Los jefes», «El desafío», «El hermano menor», «Día domingo», «Un visitante» y «El abuelo». Los relatos, ambientados en las calles de distintas localidades de Perú, nos muestran un auténtico retablo de la realidad peruana cuyos protagonistas son adolescentes, en algún caso integrantes de pandillas donde se rinde culto a la competencia y al coraje.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, March 28, 1936), known as Mario Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer who also holds Spanish nationality since 1993 and Dominican nationality since June 2022. Considered one of the most important contemporary novelists and essayists, his works have received numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, the Cervantes Prize 1994 —considered the most important in the Spanish language—, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1986, the Biblioteca Breve Prize 1962, the Rómulo Gallegos Prize 1967, and the Planeta Prize 1993, among others. Alongside Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Carlos Fuentes, he is one of the central figures of the Latin American boom

He rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (1963), The Green House (1966), and Conversation in the Cathedral (1969). He continued to prolifically cultivate various literary genres, such as essays, articles, and theater. Several of his works have been adapted into films and television. Most of his novels are set in Peru and explore his views on Peruvian society; however, in The War of the End of the World (1981), The Feast of the Goat (2000), and The Dream of the Celt (2010) he sets his plots in other countries.

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