by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421846
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«Tantas veces Pedro» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (252 pages, in Spanish).
Pedro Balbuena, a young Peruvian based in Paris who wants to be a writer, is fascinated by a woman's photograph and travels halfway around the world in search of his beloved. The novel mixes humour and bitterness: Pedro is neurotic, amorous and a mythomaniac, has relationships that do not prosper, and converses with Malatesta, a bronze dog.
Originally published in 1977 under the title «La pasión según San Pedro Balbuena que fue tantas veces Pedro, y que nunca pudo negar a nadie», this 1986 edition belongs to the El Ave Fénix collection (number 84).
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.
