by Mario Vargas Llosa · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432204777
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«Conversación en la Catedral» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Seix Barral in paperback (672 pages, in Spanish).
During a long conversation between Zavalita and the zambo Ambrosio at the La Catedral bar, in Peru under the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría, the lives of characters from different social classes intertwine. Through their dialogues and memories, the novel shows the moral corruption, political repression, and frustration of a people.
Novel originally published in 1969 in the Biblioteca Breve collection by Seix Barral.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature, interested in the work of Mario Vargas Llosa.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
