by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788410496088
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In 'The Truth of Lies', Mario Vargas Llosa invites us to explore the fascinating world of literature through his critical and passionate gaze. This book is a compilation of essays where the author analyzes key works of the 20th century, revealing the intimate relationship between reading and the expansion of our life experience. With a prologue and an epilogue that invite the pleasure of reading, Vargas Llosa immerses us in his vision of the function of literature and the future of the book, offering a profound reflection on the transforming power of fiction.
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".
