by Mario Vargas Llosa · ISBN 9788420466040
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«El paraíso en la otra esquina» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in 2003 (485 pages, in Spanish).
The work alternates the lives of Flora Tristán and Paul Gauguin, grandmother and grandson. Flora, a socialist and pioneer of feminism, fights for the rights of workers and women in 19th-century France; Paul, a painter in search of freedom, settles in Tahiti and explores a new plastic vision. Vargas Llosa contrasts two utopias: politics and art.
It belongs to Alfaguara's Narrativa Hispana collection; its author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in Gauguin and Flora Tristán and in the social and artistic debates of the 19th century.
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".
