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 out on the soccer field, the dance floor, and on street corners.
The title story, “The Cubs,” tells the story of the carefree boyhood of P.P. Cuellar and his friends, and of P.P.’s bizarre accident and tragic coming of age. Innovative in style and technique, it is a work of both physical and psychic loss.
In a candid and perceptive forward to this collection of early writing, Vargas llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the Nobel Prize-winning artist.
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Text: English, Spanish (translation)
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Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.
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The Cubs is a story about the life of a boy who suffers an accidental castration. The emotions of the boy can be felt and you see his change of attitude towards life. It has twists and turns that make The Cubs unpredictable and interesting. The story revolves around the boy and his group of friends from school.
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- The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas by Lois Parkinson Zamora in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English by Olive Classe on page 576, and page 577
- The Reading List: Contemporary Fiction: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works of 125 Authors by David Rubel on page 350
- The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria in Back Matter
- Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa in Front Matter
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