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Conversación En La Catedral / Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversación En La Catedral / Conversation in the Cathedral | Mario Vargas Llosa
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Conversación en La Catedral es algo más que un hito en el derrotero literario del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa: es un punto de referencia insoslayable, un dato fijo en la historia de la literatura actual. Zavalita y el zambo Ambrosio conversan en La Catedral. Estamos en Perú, durante el «ochenio» dictatorial del general Manuel A. Odría. Unas cuantas cervezas y un río de palabras en libertad para responder a la palabra amordazada por la dictadura.Conversación en La Catedral (1969) no es, sin embargo, una novela histórica. Sus personajes, las historias que éstos cuentan, los fragmentos que van encajando, conforman la descripción minuciosa de un envilecimiento colectivo, el repaso de todos los caminos que hacen desembocar a un pueblo entero en la frustración.Conversación en La Catedral es una cruda radiografía del envilecimiento y la frustración de la sociedad peruana bajo la presión de un poder dictatorial. «Si tuviera que salvar del fuego una sola de las [novelas] que he escrito, salvaría ésta.»Mario Vargas Llosa ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONA conversation is held in the Cathedral during the Manuel A. Odría dictatorship in Peru; over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation describes the degradation and the frustration of a town. Through a complicated web of private lives, the author analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. Conversación en la Catedral is more than a point of reference; it is a landmark in the history of present Literature.
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Kaag
Conversation in the Cathedral | Mario Vargas Llosa
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March was quite a month of reading. I think the Vargas Llosa wins as my favorite of the month but The Somme and To The Lighthouse were also terrific. Olive Grove in Ends is a very strong debut novel and The Museum of Abandoned Secrets is very timely. I think it‘s the type of novel (weighty historical fiction) one should read to get a small picture of what another country is like. The Black Jacobins is a stellar history of the Haitian Revolution.

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bromeliad
Conversation in the Cathedral | Mario Vargas Llosa
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There are 16 weeks left until 2020, and this year my focus was on minority/translated: authors of color, LGBTQIA+ authors, women authors, indigenous authors, authors in translation. I have another 4 books I want to get to for this theme, so I planned them out to stay on schedule. 2020 will be about reading the standards for lit majors, since I can count the # I've already read on one hand 😬 what does everyone have planned for the rest of 2019?

Butterfinger I have almost completed all my challenges except for#AroundtheWorld challenge. 52 books from 52 different countries. I'm trying to complete before 2020, but I'll be alright if I have to carry over. It is a great challenge because I'm learning about different cultures, people, and histories. 5y
bromeliad @Butterfinger That's an awesome challenge! Any favorites stand out? 5y
Butterfinger @bromeliad I just finished a Venezuelan western called Dona Barbara. I enjoyed Ghana's Homegoing. 5y
rwmg @Butterfinger @bromeliad I loved Dona Barbara. I saw on google that it's been made into a telenovela, which I can really imagine 5y
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Hojjat.D
Conversacion en la Catedral | Mario Vargas Llosa
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Je peux lire ce livre de Llosa dix fois par an:)

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