by Mario Vargas Llosa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420475578
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In 'El Hablador', Mario Vargas Llosa transports us to the Peruvian Amazon, where two worlds converge: that of the narrator, an anthropology student fascinated by indigenous cultures, and that of the Machiguengas, a tribe that has preserved its ancestral traditions. The novel explores the figure of the speaker, a character who travels through the Machiguenga communities transmitting stories and keeping their cultural identity alive. Through the eyes of the narrator and the narrations of the speaker, Vargas Llosa reflects on the clash between modernity and indigenous cultures, the importance of the word and memory, and the search for meaning in a constantly changing world.
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".
