by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420467061
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«La ciudad y los perros» is the novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (488 pages, in Spanish).
Set at the Leoncio Prado Military School, the plot follows a group of cadets living under brutal military discipline and rules that reward appearance and loyalty among peers. The novel portrays violence, false virility, and social prejudices within the institution, linking them to the hypocrisy of Peruvian society at the time.
The work, originally published in 1963, belongs to the Biblioteca Vargas Llosa collection. It received the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1962 and the Critics' Prize in 1963.
A reference work for students and enthusiasts of twentieth-century Latin American literature and the narrative of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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".
