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AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER by Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Helen R. Lane; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 374 pages...
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CONVERSATION IN THE CATHEDRAL by MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Translated by GREGORY RABASSA 601 pages. Harper...
Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...
...Vargas Llosa's second novel, The Green House, was respectfully roasted by some critics for its chaotic form, thematic dead ends and lock-step fatalism. There remained, however, the author's undeniable ability to generate powerful atmospheres within his remorseless, self-imposed boundaries...