Mario Vargas Llosa - Libros y biografía

With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and...

In this book, Vargas Llosa invites readers to enter into his confidence as he unravels six of his own novels and two other works of fundamental importance to him. Vargas Llosa's native Peru, the setting...

"Le voyeurisme est le vice le plus universel qui soit. Vous le savez mieux que personne : nous voulons connaître les secrets et, de préférence, les secrets d'alcôve. Fourrer son nez dans l'intimité des...

Perdu dans les rues de Madrid, un vieil homme déambule à la recherche de son domicile. Ressassant les souvenirs d’un monde disparu, il imagine une ville future privée de musées, de librairies et de salles...

Un hommage personnel, aussi définitif que détaillé, du Prix Nobel de littérature à un géant de la littérature espagnole. Élevé au statut de " gloire de l'Espagne ", Benito Pérez Galdós...

A jornada de um homem que sonhou com um país unido pela música e enlouqueceu na tentativa de escrever o livro perfeito. Do autor vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura.Toño Azpilcueta vive pela música...

Dans Le poisson dans l’eau (Éditions Gallimard, 1995), la première partie de son autobiographie, Mario Vargas Llosa partageait avec ses lecteurs deux périodes décisives de son existence : d’une part,...

Ce livre n’est pas un simple recueil d’articles de Mario Vargas Llosa ou une nouvelle sélection de ses essais. C’est un volume savamment construit qui décrit le parcours politique et intellectuel du romancier...

Cette pièce est une adaptation libre des nouvelles du Décaméron de Boccace. Après un séjour à la célèbre Scuola Holden de Turin, où il eut l'occasion de rencontrer Alessandro Baricco, Mario Vargas Llosa...

La culture contemporaine a connu une métamorphose et plus rien, semble-t-il, ne résiste à cette dénaturation, voire à cet effacement de sa valeur. La banalisation des arts et des lettres, le triomphe...

A frightening and impressive portrait of evil by one of Latin America's leading contemporary novelists.'A monumentally engrossing novel.' Los Angeles Times

A powerful exploration of machismo and sexual desire, by Peru's most acclaimed writer.A Peruvian desert town in the 1940s. When a young girl disappears it seems that only La Chunga, the barwoman, knows...

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE"A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever." Financial Times "A compelling and propulsive...

In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers...

The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious...

Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization...

The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves...

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole...

In Who Killed Palomino Molero? Mario Vargas LLosa has turned to detective fiction. The setting is Peru in the 1950s. Near an air force base in the northern deserts, a young airman is found brutally tortured...

A visitor from Peru, happening upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle in an obscure Florentine picture gallery, finds his attention drawn to a picture of a tribal storyteller seated...

Mario Vargas Llosa has been making waves in cultural and political spheres for over thirty years. Making Waves presents for the first time in English a collection of his essays, a journey through time,...

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as 'Lily' in Lima in 1950, where she claims to be from Chile but vanishes the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He...

'A comic novel on the grand scale written with tremendous confidence and verve. Mario, 18-year-old law student and radio news-editor, falls scandalously for his Aunt Julia, the 32-year-old divorced wife...

Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple...

In 1844, Flora Tristan embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to...

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege, translated by Edith Grossman. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt...

The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author's native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the...

Don Rigoberto - a rather grey insurance executive by day, a dedicated pornographer and sexual enthusiast by night - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. He desperately compensates for her absence...

Le 7 avril 1803 naît à Paris la militante féministe et ouvriériste Flora Tristan, fille d'un officier péruvien au service du Roi d'Espagne et d'une bourgeoise parisienne. Un siècle plus tard, le 8 mai...

Que de tours et de malices chez cette «vilaine fille», toujours et tant aimée par son ami Ricardo, le «bon garçon». Ils se rencontrent pour la première fois au début des années cinquante, en pleine adolescence,...