by Mario Vargas Llosa · Editorial Bruguera, Colección Club Bruguera nº 5, 1980, Barcelona. Primera edición. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402067111
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«Pantaleón y las visitadoras» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Editorial Bruguera in hardback (283 pages, in Spanish).
Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, a recently promoted officer, receives the secret mission of establishing a prostitution service for the Peruvian armed forces in the Amazon jungle. His strict sense of duty and obsessive commitment to the task end up overwhelming the programme, in a satire on military and religious hypocrisy.
This first edition of the Colección Club Bruguera (no. 5) was published in Barcelona in 1980; the novel was originally published in 1973.
It is a work for readers of Latin American fiction seeking social satire and humour.
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".
