by Mario Vargas Llosa · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432223327
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«Historia de Mayta» is the novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Seix Barral in paperback (346 pages, in Spanish).
A nameless narrator investigates the life of Alejandro Mayta, a Trotskyist militant whose revolutionary attempt in Peru ended in failure. The novel, inspired by a real insurrection in the Jauja prison, combines a psychological portrait of the character with a reflection on politics, ideology, and the country's social reality.
The novel was originally published in 1984 and was nominated for the Grinzane Cavour Prize in the Narrativa Straniera category in 1986.
For readers of Latin American fiction and contemporary novels interested in stories with political and social 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".
