by Mario Vargas Llosa · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467039788
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«Los cachorros / Los jefes» is the collection of seven stories by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Austral in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together seven short pieces: the stories of «Los jefes» and the short novel «Los cachorros». Their protagonists are adolescents growing up in an oppressive and violent environment; social tyranny and the need not to disappoint others force them to hide their truth behind a mask, generating a constant tension between appearance and intimacy.
It belongs to the Contemporánea collection. Los jefes, Vargas Llosa's first book, won the Leopoldo Alas Prize; Los cachorros appeared in 1967.
For readers who want to discover Mario Vargas Llosa's beginnings in the short story and short novel before moving on to his later novels.
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".
