Word: odria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vargas Llosa novels, some written while he lived in Europe, were glaring reflections of Peruvian oppression and corruption and the Latin cult of virility. The most stylish was Conversation in the Cathedral (1975), in which the country was symbolically depicted as a brothel during the administration of President Manuel Odria...
Aunt Julia is set in that same period of the 1950s, though Odria and his political procurers are not in sight. Instead, Vargas Llosa's Lima is a bright tangle of characters: Indians from the mountains and the edge of the Amazon busy filling up new slums; a middle class trying to keep its balance in an unstable economy; and the rich preserving the good life and marrying off their daughters in style. There are shocks and bizarre surprises, but the prevailing atmosphere of the novel is a melancholy gaiety...