by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433966988
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«La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (584 pages, in Spanish).
Martín Romaña, a young Peruvian and reader of Hemingway, leaves his well-off family in 1964 to go to Paris, where reality does not resemble his books. Among concierges, wicked dogs, a far-left militant and an unlucky revolutionary, he tries to write with humour and melancholy his novel about Latin Americans in a hostile city.
It belongs to Anagrama's Compactos collection, number 267. The first edition dates from 2001.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the experience of Latin Americans in Paris and in Bryce Echenique's melancholic humour.
Alfredo Marcelo Bryce Echenique was a Peruvian writer. He wrote numerous books and short stories; he is best known for his 1970 work A World for Julius. At the time of his death, he was considered to be the last living representative of the Latin American Boom, although he has also been categorized as being part of post-boom literature.
