by Mario Vargas Llosa · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420468273
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«Historia de Mayta» is the novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator reconstructs the figure of Alejandro Mayta, a Trotskyist militant who in 1958 took part in a revolutionary attempt in Peru. The novel contrasts the idealized memory with a disenchanted reality and reflects on political idealism, truth, and the Latin American left.
Work originally published in 1984; nominated for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1986.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American narrative, especially those who follow 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".
