by Mario Vargas Llosa · Aguilar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788403602717
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«Los cachorros» is the short story by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Aguilar in paperback (80 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows a group of youths from Lima's Miraflores in the 1950s and centres on Pichula Cuéllar, castrated as a boy by his school's dog. With agile, musical prose and shifts in point of view, it addresses the fear of being different in a patriarchal society and nostalgia for an unrecoverable youth.
The work originally appeared in 1967; this Aguilar edition belongs to the Relato collection.
Suitable for readers of Latin American fiction and for young people approaching Vargas Llosa's work.
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".
