by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481303704
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«La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña. Volumen I» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique published by El Mundo in hardback (282 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Peruvian Martín Romaña during his time in Paris in the 1960s, amid burlesque, tender and unexpected adventures, narrated with the humour that distinguishes Bryce Echenique. The work is the first part of the diptych «Cuaderno de navegación en un sillón Voltaire», completed in 1985 with «El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cádiz».
The novel was originally published in 1981. This 2001 edition belongs to the collection «Las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX» (no. 97) and includes the prologue by Marcos-Ricardo Barnatán.
For those interested in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and humorous narrative.
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.
