by Mario Vargas Llosa · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466319157
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«Conversación en la Catedral» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (736 pages, in Spanish).
Conversación en la Catedral is structured around the dialogue between Zavalita and the zambo Ambrosio at the La Catedral bar, during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría in Peru. Through these dialogues and their memories, the narrative reconstructs a web of intersecting lives, corruption, and collective frustration in Peruvian society of the time.
Conversación en la Catedral is the third novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, originally published in 1969. Mario Vargas Llosa received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
For readers of classic fiction and contemporary narrative in Spanish, with an interest in Latin American literature and political background.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American 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".
