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La ciudad y los perros (Punto de lectura) (Spanish Edition) [Mass Market Paperback]

Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)
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November 2000
Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps Vargas Llosa’s most violent book. Set in a military school in Lima, where an unwritten code of survival of the fittest is imposed. Here, he focuses on the brutality of military life and the strong pyramidal hierarchy that mirrors Peruvian society, where violence, exploitation and human degradation are the guarantee so that each layer of the pyramid maintains its place. All the conflicts of Peruvian society arise with rage and impotence in this testimonial novel in which Vargas Llosa, paints a social and political picture.

Description in Spanish: La ciudad y los perros no solamente es un ataque contra la crueldad ejercida a un grupo de jóvenes alumnos del Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, sino también una crítica frontal al concepto erróneo de la virilidad, de sus funciones y de las consecuencias de una educación castrense malentendida.

Aunada a la brutalidad propia de la vida militar, a lo largo de las páginas de esta extraordinaria novela, la vehemencia y la pasión de la juventud se desbocan hasta llegar a una furia, una rabia y un fanatismo que anulan toda sensibilidad.

El libro más violento de Mario Vargas Llosa, traducido a más de treinta idiomas.


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Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 1936) has received many literary awards, including the Premio Biblioteca Breve, Premio Principe de Asturias, Premio de la Critica Espaola, and Premio Nacional de Novela (Peru). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Santillana USA Publishing Company (November 2000)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 846630116X
  • ISBN-13: 978-8466301169
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,037,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1936. In 1958 he earned a scholarship to study in Madrid, and later he lived in Paris. His first story collection, The Cubs and Other Stories, was published in 1959. Vargas Llosa's reputation grew with the publication in 1963 of The Time of the Hero, a controversial novel about the politics of his country. The Peruvian military burned a thousand copies of the book. He continued to live abroad until 1980, returning to Lima just before the restoration of democratic rule.

A man of politics as well as literature, Vargas Llosa served as president of PEN International from 1977 to 1979, and headed the government commission to investigate the massacre of eight journalists in the Peruvian Andes in 1983.

Vargas Llosa has produced critical studies of García Márquez, Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus, and has written extensively on the roots of contemporary fiction. For his own work, he has received virtually every important international literary award. Vargas Llosa's works include The Green House (1968) and Conversation in the Cathedral (1975), about which Suzanne Jill Levine for The New York Times Book Review said: "With an ambition worthy of such masters of the 19th-century novel as Balzac, Dickens and Galdós, but with a technical skill that brings him closer to the heirs of Flaubert and Henry James . . . Mario Vargas Llosa has [created] one of the largest narrative efforts in contemporary Latin American letters." In 1982, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter to broad critical acclaim. In 1984, FSG published the bestselling The War of the End of the World, winner of the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta was published in 1986. The Perpetual Orgy, Vargas Llosa's study of Flaubert and Madame Bovary, appeared in the winter of 1986, and a mystery, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, the year after. The Storyteller, a novel, was published to great acclaim in 1989. In 1990, FSG published In Praise of the Stepmother, also a bestseller. Of that novel, Dan Cryer wrote: "Mario Vargas Llosa is a writer of promethean authority, making outstanding fiction in whatever direction he turns" (Newsday).

In 1990, Vargas Llosa ran for the presidency of his native Peru. In 1994, FSG published his memoir, A Fish in the Water, in which he recorded his campaign experience. In 1994, Vargas Llosa was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and, in 1995, the Jerusalem Prize, which is awarded to writers whose work expresses the idea of the freedom of the individual in society. In 1996, Death in the Andes, Vargas Llosa's next novel, was published to wide acclaim. Making Waves, a collection of his literary and political essays, was published in 1997; The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, a novel, was published in 1998; The Feast of the Goat, which sold more than 400,000 copies in Spanish-language, was published in English in 2001; The Language of Passion, his most recent collection of nonfiction essays on politics and culture, was published by FSG in June 2003. The Way to Paradise, a novel, was published in November 2003; The Bad Girl, a novel, was published in the U.S. by FSG in October, 2007. His most recent novel, El Sueño del Celta, will be published in 2011 or 2012. Two works of nonfiction are planned for the near future as well.

 

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Una de las 10 mejores novelas latinoamericanas, June 19, 2001
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Vargas Llosa demuestra en esta novela que es un gran arquitecto de la literatura y un eficaz descriptor de la compleja sociedad peruana y latinoamericana. La novela contiene diferentes narradores e historias entrelazadas que tienen como eje principal la vida de un grupo de estudiantes de un colegio militar de Lima. Las historias del Poeta (proveniente de una familia con comodidad económica), el Jaguar (producto de la violencia y pobreza de su pasado) y el Esclavo (incapaz de enfrentar el ambiente violento) nos muestran las grandes desigualdades y conflictos de la sociedad peruana. La convivencia dramática de estos personajes en el colegio militar es un ejemplo de las dificultades de interrelación que se dan en la sociedad. He leído casi todos los libros de Vargas Llosa y definitivamente La Ciudad y los Perros junto con Conversación en la Catedral son los mejores.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars El microcosmos limeño de un gran escritor, April 1, 2003
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"La ciudad y los Perros" es la primera novela de MVLL, con la cual ganaría, en 1964, el premio Biblioteca Breve otorgado por Seix Barral. La publicación del libro provocó reacciones enardecidas en la cúpula militar peruana, quienes en un acto de represalia hicieron una fogata con todas las primeras ediciones que llegaron a sus manos. Esta fue la primera señal que indicaba el nacimiento de un nuevo escritor.

La historia se desenvuelve dentro de un colegio militarizado (el Leoncio Prado, el cual aún se encuentra en funcionamiento) y narra de manera cruda las vicisitudes de un grupo de adolescentes que llegaron a ese colegio por diversos motivos. Unos para reformarse y convertirse en hombres de bien, y otros para hacerse "machos". En este micro-cosmos, MVLL nos revela los secretos mejor guardados de la sociedad limeña, sus vicios: el racismo (peculiar en un país pluri-cultural), las diferencias sociales (los burgueses blanquecinos viven en San Isidro, y los pobres acholados en Lince), el autoritarismo militar (los cadetes y los perros), la corrupción (la venta ilegal de pisco y cigarrillos a cambio de algunos favores, o dinero adicional), el servilismo militar ("Gamboa esa denuncia fregará tu ascenso") y el chantaje ("Cadete Fernández, si usted promete no volver hablar del tema yo olvidaré que usted escribió estas historietas inmorales"). Y aunque algunos personajes tratan de mostrar el lado bueno de la vida militar (Gamboa y su tozudez por cumplir su deber al pie de la letra, a pesar que eso podría perjudicar su futuro; el Círculo y su lealtad enfermiza, aunque esta sólo le sirva para cometer actos ilegales; la amistad entre el Poeta y el Esclavo, aunque sea considerada como una mariconada por sus compañeros de clases) es claro que el mundo que se pretende mostrar es el negativo, en el cual prevalecen las taras sociales. No olvidemos que MVLL estudió en el colegio que hace referencia en este libro, y quizás haya sido testigo presencial de aquellos excesos.

Sin embargo, lo magistral de esta novela no radica precisamente en el tema -este es sólo un medio a través del cual el escritor logra su objetivo: escribir -, sino más bien en el estilo que emplea el escritor. Un vocabulario enriquecedor, empleando incluso jergas peruanas que revelan por sí mismos su significado; una descripción precisa de los personajes y ambientes, sin caer en el uso excesivo de esta técnica que podría llevar al lector al tedio somnífero; y una magnífica conexión entre sus historias.

Sin atenuantes, un clásico de la Literatura Latinoamericana.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars muy bueno,, February 2, 2000
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Luis Méndez (Republica Dominicana) - See all my reviews
muy bueno, aunque no el mejor de sus libros, esas historias sobre colegios militares tienen su publico, y puede ser que no sea muy amante de esas lecturas, pero hay que darle sus meritos, el usa el estilo de contar las cosas comenzando desde la mitad de las mismas, yendo al principio y finalizando. no se la recomiendo a nadie como primera lectura de vargas llosa, es mejor comenzar por la casa verde, mas intensa, mas madura narrataivamente hablando,pero ustedes lo leen y despues deciden.

luis mendez

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