by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420484150
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Historia de Mayta is a novel by the renowned Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 2000. The plot focuses on the figure of Alejandro Mayta, a character involved in a Trotskyist revolutionary attempt in Peru in 1958. Through an investigation and the reconstruction of events, the narrator explores Mayta's life, his motivations, and the political and social context of the time. The novel examines themes such as marginality, ideological conflicts, and the limitations of truth, offering a reflection on history and violence in Latin America.
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".
