by Alfredo Bryce Echenique · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401412639
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«El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cádiz» is the novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (421 pages, in Spanish).
In the novel, Florence tells her sister Octavia who Martín Romaña is, a Peruvian professor at the University of Nanterre. Octavia breaks up with her three suitors and becomes the professor's student; a love story is born between them.
The novel, together with «La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña», forms the diptych «Cuaderno de navegación en un sillón Voltaire». The novel was published in 1999.
Alfredo Marcelo Bryce Echenique was a Peruvian writer. He wrote numerous books and short stories; he is best known for his 1970 work A World for Julius. At the time of his death, he was considered to be the last living representative of the Latin American Boom, although he has also been categorized as being part of post-boom literature.
