A Fish in the Water - Softcover

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140248900 ISBN 13: 9780140248906

Verlag: Penguin, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The author recounts his life from his birth in Arequipa through his 1990 bid for the Peruvian presidency, and reveals the experiences that he transformed into his critically acclaimed literary works

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In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international headlines, transforming an eminent writer into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa's disarming and deeply absorbing response to that profoundly heady - and troubling - experience. This is a twofold book: a memoir of the formation of one of Latin America's most celebrated artists, from his birth in Arequipa in 1936 to his departure for Europe to make his career as a writer, and, in alternating chapters, the story of Vargas Llosa's organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the presidency. In this richly personal work, Vargas Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, including his stay at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was the basis of his first book, The Time of the Hero, and his desperate attempts to marry while still a minor, as recounted in hilarious detail in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In parallel, he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for modern democracy and a free-market economy. Offering an unexpectedly intimate look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous and original politician and thinker. A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140248900
• ISBN 13: 9780140248906
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
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