NOVELS

Novels

Novels

Introduction

Latin American Literature became quiet famous during the sixties, when the Magical Realism of authors as Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1928) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) published their most well known books. Especially Cien Años de Soledad (Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967) became world famous and has been translated in several languages. He got the Nobel Price for Literature in 1982 and is still a very popular writer. After García Márquez, it was Isabel Allende (Chile) that continued the tradition of the magical realism. Her la Casa de los Espíritus (The house of the spirits) takes place during the years of the regime of Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973), just before the Chilian dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. But even before Márquez, Vargas Llosa and Isabel Allende, it were Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, two Chilean Nobel awards, that became world famous with their poems. Peruvian literature includes everything from the controversy inspired on the independence to anarchist individualism of its poets, passing through the childish dreams of the internationally known

un mundo para Julius Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Un Mundo para Julius was a novel that signified the early 1970s and the sensibilities of a generation. I read it early during my residence in Peru and it influenced my feel for the society. Throughout history, literature of Peru has had a large number of representatives who, through their publications, helped to enhance the worldwide image of Peruvian letters.

A world JuliusUno those authors who, for decades, their work demonstrates that there is a wealth of intellectual Alfredo Bryce Echenique, the creator of works like "Tarzan's Tonsillitis" and "A World for Julius."

This latest novel mentioned, which appeared in 1970, allowed the writer to get in their homeland National Literary Award and won the Award for Best Foreign Novel in France. Moreover, decades after its release, a survey of numerous writers and critics found that, for most who are in some way related to the literary field, "A world for Julius" Peruvian is the best novel of all time. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. In this postmodern novel Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s.

la ciudad y los perros Mario Vargas Llosa

Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps Vargas Llosa's most violent book. Set in a military school in Lima, where an unwritten code of survival of the fittest is imposed. Here, he focuses on the brutality of military life and the strong pyramidal hierarchy that mirrors Peruvian society, where violence, exploitation and human degradation are the guarantee so that each layer of the pyramid maintains its place. All the conflicts of Peruvian society arise with rage and impotence in this testimonial novel in which Vargas Llosa, paints a social and political picture.

"The Time of the Hero" is a complex book in which excellence is ...