Cuentos de Mario Vargas Llosa

by Mario Vargas Llosa

128 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2025

About the author

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros, 1963/1966), The Green House (La casa verde, 1965/1968), and the monumental Conversation in The Cathedral (Conversación en La Catedral, 1969/1975). He wrote prolifically across various literary genres, including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. He won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize and the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award. Several of his works have been adopted as feature films, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973/1978) and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977/1982). Vargas Llosa's perception of Peruvian society and his experiences as a native Peruvian influenced many of his works. Increasingly, he expanded his range and tackled themes from other parts of the world. In his essays, Vargas Llosa criticized nationalism in different parts of the world.
Like many Latin American writers, Vargas Llosa was politically active. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of Fidel Castro, Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with its policies, particularly after the imprisonment of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in 1971, and later identified as a liberal and held anti-left-wing ideas. He ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 with the center-right Frente Democrático coalition, advocating for liberal reforms, but lost the election to Alberto Fujimori in a landslide.
Vargas Llosa continued his literary career while advocating for right-wing activists and candidates internationally following his exit from direct participation in Peruvian politics. He was awarded the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2011, Vargas Llosa was made the Marquess of Vargas Llosa by Spanish king Juan Carlos I. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française.

Reviews

[Ale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un buen libro, entre algo indeciso al libro, porque me dedique a conocer un poco sobre la historia de Mario para intentar entender más sus cuentos e historias y la verdad en términos políticos somos muy diferentes, tengo que decir que eso me hizo creer que no me iban a gustar tanto, pero me sorprendió muy bien.
Los cuentos son muy rápidos por la forma que estan escritos, pero tocan temas profundos y muy interesantes. Me gustaron bastante, aunque en la mayoría me costaba entrar a los cuentos desde pues ya no podía parar y los final/remates que hace son buenos.
Bien libro, mi relato favorito fue hermano menor, me pareció perfecto.
Espero leer más de este autor y que su nivel se mantenga y no decaiga (para mí) por el bando político que decidió tomar y ojalá eso no sea un detonante para cambiar los temas que aborda, porque creo que fueron unos de sus fuertes en estos cuentos.
Buena lectura, la recomendaría.

[Dania R · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creo que, a veces, requiere más talento hacer cuentos que libros.
El poder contar una historia, corta pero profunda, con remate, no lo logra cualquiera.

[Consu Morales · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF que fomedaddddd