Bücher von Mario Vargas Llosa

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 life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign.In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle (which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized.'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.' Times Literary Supplement

Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct.

Enrique ist glücklich verheiratet, beruflich erfolgreich und hat ein Riesenproblem: Er wird erpresst. Von Garro, dem Besitzer eines Boulevardblatts, der belastende Fotos hat und Enrique zwingen will, in die strauchelnde Zeitschrift zu investieren. Enrique sucht Rat bei Luciano, seinem alten Weggefährten und Anwalt, verliert jedoch im entscheidenden Moment die Nerven und bietet dem Erpresser offen die Stirn. Der bringt darauf die Fotos und wird kurze Zeit später tot aufgefunden, brutal ermordet. Enrique, geschäftlich wie moralisch ruiniert, glaubt, das sei das Ende. Doch es ist erst der Anfang. Denn während die Polizei ihn der Bluttat verdächtigt und er in undurchsichtige Machenschaften gerät, die aus den allerhöchsten Regierungskreise gesteuert scheinen, kommen sich seine und Lucianos Frau mehr als nur freundschaftlich nahe...»Die Enthüllung« ist eine brisante Spannungsgeschichte, ein erotisches Kammerspiel und ein zeitpolitischer Schlüsselroman - voller Überraschungen, Wendungen, Abgründe und Verheißungen. Mario Vargas Llosa hat ein so kunstreiches wie lebensechtes Panorama der menschlichen Verhältnisse geschaffen, ein Werk von staunenswerter Tiefenschärfe und bleibender Gültigkeit.

Auf ihrem Posten in den peruanischen Anden sitzen Korporal Lituma und sein Helfer Tomás wie in einer Falle. Unter ständiger Bedrohung durch Terrorkommandos und eine gewalttätige Natur sollen sie das mysteriöse Verschwinden dreier Menschen aufklären. Überall schlägt ihnen Mißtrauen entgegen, unheimliche Geschichten dringen an ihr Ohr. Hätte Tomás nicht die brennende Erinnerung an seine abenteuerliche Liebesgeschichte mit Mercedes, von der er Lituma Nacht für Nacht erzählt, die beiden müßten eingehen in dieser feindseligen, abergläubischen Bergwelt.So abweisend das Klima und so verstörend die Bruchstücke der Wahrheit, die sie nach und nach ans Licht bringen, sie lassen nicht locker. Was in den Bergen geschah, hat die Ausmaße eines unfaßbaren Dramas.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURESpanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, and the terrorism of Peru's Shining Path; brilliant engagements with towering figures of literature such as Joyce, Faulkner, and Sartre; and observations about the dog cemetery where Rin Tin Tin is buried, Lorena Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school system.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of Latin America's most garlanded novelists-and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature-Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.

"Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time." -- Chicago TribuneFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a haunting novel about power, corruption, and the complex search for identity.Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town.Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic analysis, Conversation in The Cathedral is a groundbreaking novel that tackles identity as well as the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a people and a nation.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThis wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa's characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThis delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army-to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe 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.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas Llosa's first work of non-fiction will send the reader back to Flaubert's masterpiece with renewed interest.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru. There, four angry cadets who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide. The Time of the Hero presents, with great accuracy and power, the cadets' nightmare life: brutal initiation rights, poker in the latrines, drinking contests; and, above all else, the strange military code which, whether broken or followed, can only destroy.When The Time of the Hero was first published in Peru in 1962, it was considered so scandalous that a thousand copies were burned in an official ceremony at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy. That same year, the book received the Biblioteca Breve Prize, an award given to the best work of fiction in the Spanish language."...[A]s with other fine writers, Vargas functions on more than a single level of meaning." - The New York Times

Die Stadt und die Hunde ist eine kritische Durchleuchtung der peruanischen Gesellschaft, eine leidenschaftliche Prüfung ihrer Widersprüche, ihrer Heucheleien, ihrer falschen Mythen und Konfusionen.

La ciudad y los perros es la novela con la que Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura y Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, alcanzó el reconocimiento internacional.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.Un grupo de jóvenes que se «educan» en una disciplina militar implacable y violenta, aprenden a sobrevivir en un ambiente que lleva muy arraigados los prejuicios raciales y las diferencias entre clases sociales y económicas; donde todos se muestran como no son en realidad y la transgresión de las normas parece ser la única salida.Pero La ciudad y los perros no solamente es una diatriba contra la brutalidad ejercida en un grupo de jóvenes alumnos del Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, también es un ataque 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 yla pasión de la juventud se desbocan hasta llegar a una furia, una rabia y un fanatismo que anulan toda su sensibilidad. El libro más violento de Mario Vargas Llosa.Premio Biblioteca Breve 1962.Considerada una de las mejores novelas en español del siglo XX.Traducida a más de treinta idiomas.Un título imprescindible de la literatura hispanoamericanaEn La ciudad y los perros, Mario Vargas Llosa demuestra una madurez literaria extraordinaria que en adelante irá en aumento hasta alcanzar un estilo depuradísimo y un sitio de primera fila entre los escritores contemporáneos.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONTranslated 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 guarantee that each layer of the social 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."

Mario Vargas Llosa contrapone con extraordinario virtuosismo técnico dos mundos que parecen vivir enfre ntados, el de las sociedades modernas y el de los pueblos que viven en armonía con la naturaleza. A su vez conduce al lector a un viaje vertiginoso por el imaginario colectivo de los indios machiguengas, que le sirve para desarrollar, una vez más, una de sus obsesiones: el papel de la ficción en la vida de los hombres. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other —our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREInternationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others.

»Mario Vargas Llosas Kathedrale ist ein in flagrantem Widerspruch zu seinem hochtrabend-ehrwürdigen Namen schmieriges Lokal, Symbol dieser sehr wohlanständigen, sehr katholischen, sehr alten Stadt Lima. In diesem Lokal führen der Herrensohn Zavala und der schwarze Diener Ambrosio das lange, eine Vielzahl von Einzelschicksalen rekonstruierende Gespräch, das den Rahmen des Romans bildet. An diesen Schicksalen legt Vargas Llosa die gleichsam durch ein perverses politisches System in allen ihren Schichten, in jedem einzelnen, geprägte Gesellschaft bloß. Der historische Diktator Manuel Odría, von 1948 bis 1956 peruanischer Präsident, wie andere vor ihm vom Großbürgertum an die Macht gebracht und von den USA gestützt, solange über das Wie der im Land aufrechterhaltenen >Ruhe und Ordnung< nichts nach außen verlautete, bleibt im Roman unsichtbar. Politische Hauptfigur ist seine Kreatur, der Sicherheitsdirektor Don Cayo, der für den Erfolg verantwortlich ist: die gefälschten Wahlergebnisse, die jubelnden Volksmassen bei offiziellen Kundgebungen, die gekaufte Presse und das schaurige Geschäft der Repression.«

Ein heikler Geheimauftrag reißt den untadeligen Hauptmann Pantaleon aus der militärischen Routine und seinem brav bürgerlichen Familienleben. Unter dem Einfluß des schwülheißen Dschungels versetzen die Soldaten der Kasernen im hinteren Amazonas-Gebiet die Bevölkerung mit ihren sexuellen Eskapaden in Panik und schaden so dem Ruf der glorreichen peruanischen Armee. Also wird der untadelige Kommißkopf Pantaleon mit der Planung und Durchführung einer Entlastungsoffensive betraut. Die Vehemenz des erotischen Tropenkollers soll sich auf soldatisch geordnete Weise entladen. Pantaleon soll deshalb einen »weiblichen Dienst« einrichten, eine maison public auf Reisen. Pflichtgefühl und Liebe zur Armee nötigen den uniformierten Mustergatten, sich zum gewissenhaften Experten auf dem Felde der Ausschweifungen zu entwickeln.

In dem Werk Das grüne Haus haben sich der geographische Raum - Urwalddörfer und Städte in einem Städtedreieck des nördlichen Peru - und die dargestellte soziale Problematik im Vergleich zu Vargas Llosas erstem Roman Die Stadt und die Hunde erweitert. Der Autor erzählt, wie hochherzige Nonnen Urwaldmädchen einfangen, um sie in ihren Missionsschulen zu christianisieren. Am konkreten Schicksal Bonifacias verdeutlicht er deren »neues« Leben: Dienerin bei den Garnisonsoffizieren, schließlich Prostituierte. Eine zweite Geschichte berichtet von der Ausbeutung der Indianer bei der Kautschukgewinnung, den Repressalien der Regierung bei Auflehnung und Streik. Die permanente Unterdrückung der Eingeborenen durch die Vertreter der herrschenden Gesellschaft ist Thema des dritten Handlungsmotivs. Zwei Episoden ereignen sich in der kleinen Wüstenstadt Piura. Eine grüngestrichene Hütte, das städtische Bordell, ist Zentrum des erzählerischen Kaleidoskops, Schnittpunkt der Schicksale, Zeiten und Realitäten, ein Haus von nahezu mythischer Vergangenheit und Bedeutung.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookFlora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works.Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this double portrait, a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWith 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 harmony of his characters. The mysterious nature of happiness and above all, the corrupting power of innocence are the themes that underlie these pages, and the author has perfectly met the demands of the erotic novel, never dimming for an instant the fine poetic polish of his writing.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREDeep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a fable of Latin American revolutionary history, an unforgettable story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism.