Pantaleon Pantoja, a recently promoted army captain, is entrusted with a top secret mission to establish a prostitution service for the Armed Forces of Peru. As a faithful soldier, Pantaleon transfers to Iquitos in the middle of the jungle, to carry out his mission. His enthusiasm, however, endangers the very scheme he has put in motion. Pantaleon Pantoja, a recently promoted army captain, is entrusted with a top secret mission to establish a prostitution service for the Armed Forces of Peru. As a faithful soldier, Pantaleon transfers to Iquitos in the middle of the jungle, to carry out his mission. His enthusiasm, however, endangers the very scheme he has put in motion Description in Spanish: Pantaleón Pantoja, un capitán del ejército recientemente ascendido, recibe la misión de establecer un servicio de prostitución para las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú en el más absoluto secreto militar. Estricto cumplidor del deber que le ha sido asignado, Pantaleón se traslada a Iquitos, en plena selva, para llevar a cabo su cometido, pero se entrega a esta misión con tal obcecación que termina por poner en peligro el engranaje que él mismo ha puesto en movimiento. Asà arranca esta novela, publicada en 1973 y llevada posteriormente al cine. Mario Vargas Llosa utiliza esta anécdota para subrayar la hipocresÃa de las instituciones que se llaman ejemplares y del oficio más viejo del mundo.
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It is not hard to believe this is a true story...,
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This review is from: Pantaleon y las visitadoras (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Vargas Llosa gives us in this story a view of what can REALLY happen in the institutions of our countries and to what length one of them (the Peruvian army) would go to try to solve an internal affair. At first, when reading the reviews of "Pantaleón y las visitadoras" I thought it was all fiction, big was my surprise when the author tells the readers that this is a true story...I absolutely loved this book; it mixes humor with something so serious as the Peruvian Army. The characters, especially "Pantita" y "Pochita", were great... It is incredible how Vargas Llosa wrote this particular novel, at first it was very difficult to read, the story jumps to different locations and times from one paragraph to the other and until I got accustomed to that writing it was hard to comprehend. Captain Pantoja was send to the Amazon region to solve a "BIG" problem: the men serving there were out of control, their sexual desire was extremely high and because of that rapes and the pregnancies increased. He was order to create a "visitors program". This was a group of prostitutes which only purpose was to sexually serve the army station there, the mission was supposed to be "top secret", but when Pantoja organized the funeral of one the girls, everyone finds out, including his superiors, and that gets him transferred to another location. I absolutely recommend this book, it is funny and unpredictable. One could learn a lot about how our countries work and the weird things that happen in them.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Literatura seria con humor,
By Israel Viacava (Miami, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pantaleon y las visitadoras (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
Vargas Llosa lo dice y aqui esta la prueba. Una historia sobre la obediencia militar, los conflictos del ser humano y los trajines de un recto oficial para organizar un servicio de prostitutas con caracter militar para los soldados asignados en la Selva Peruana. Excelente novela.
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Latin America in its best,
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This review is from: Pantaleon y las Visitadoras (Paperback)
The peruvian army is facing a curious problem : the men in the Amazon region have too much sexual desire and not so many available women around, so rape is on the increase. To solve this problem, the generals devise an ingenious plan - they ask their best officer, Captain Pantaleon, a family man, to set up a top secret "visitors" program : hookers, hired by the army, travelling up and down the amazon region to take sexual confort to soldiers. This is the plot of a great book, really funny and very, very well written - special praise must be made to the transcription of "official reports" signed by Pantaleon, reporting his difficulties and successes to his superiors in an official vocabulary, despite the absurd theme - Latin America in its best, bringing together wit, cinicism, sarcarsm, the Army, the Church, the Press and every other institution one can think about. I definitely recommend it.
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