Conversación En La Catedral / Conversation in the Cathedral

Conversation in The Cathedral is more than a milestone in the literary career of Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa: it is an inescapable point of reference, a fixed datum in the history of current literature. Zavalita and the zambo Ambrosio converse in The Cathedral. We are in Peru, during the dictatorial eight-year period of General Manuel A. Odría. A few beers and a river of words in freedom to answer the word muzzled by the dictatorship.
Conversation in The Cathedral (1969) is not, however, a historical novel. Its characters, the stories they tell, the fragments that fit together, form the meticulous description of a collective debasement, the review of all the paths that lead an entire people to frustration.
Conversation in The Cathedral is a crude X-ray of the debasement and frustration of Peruvian society under the pressure of a dictatorial power.

If I had to save only one of the [novels] I have written from the fire, I would save this one.
Mario Vargas Llosa

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A 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.

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 12/27/2016
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9788490625620
ISBN10: 849062562X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Mario Vargas Llosa: (Arequipa, Perú 1936 - Lima 2025) Nobel Prize in Literature 2010. Although he had premiered a play in Piura and published a book of short stories, Los jefes, Leopoldo Alas Prize, his literary career gained notoriety with La ciudad y los perros, Biblioteca Breve Prize (1962) and Critics' Prize (1963). In 1965 his second novel, La casa verde, Critics' Prize and Rómulo Gallegos Prize, appeared. He has published plays -La señorita de Tacna, Kathie y el hipopótamo, La Chunga, El loco de los balcones, Ojos bonitos, cuadros feos, Las mil noches y una noche and Los cuentos de la peste-, studies and essays -García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio, Carta de batalla por Tirant lo Blanc, La orgía perpetua, La utopía arcaica, La verdad de las mentiras, La tentación de lo imposible, El viaje a la ficción, La civilización del espectáculo, La llamada de la tribu and La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós)-, memoirs -El pez en el agua-, short stories -Los cachorros-, Conversación en Princeton, con Rubén Gallo, Medio siglo con Borges, Dos soledades, Obra periodística I. El fuego de la imaginación, Un bárbaro en París: Textos sobre la cultura francesa and, above all, novels: Conversación en La Catedral, Pantaleón y las visitadoras, La tía Julia y el escribidor, La guerra del fin del mundo, Historia de Mayta, ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, El hablador, Elogio de la madrastra, Lituma en los Andes, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, La Fiesta del Chivo, El Paraíso en la otra esquina, Travesuras de la niña mala, El sueño del celta, El héroe discreto, Cinco Esquinas and Tiempos recios. He has received the most important literary awards, from those already mentioned to the Cervantes Prize, the Prince of Asturias Prize, the PEN/Nabokov Prize and the Grinzane Cavour Prize.