by Mario Vargas Llosa · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070716715
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«L'homme qui parle» is the novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Gallimard in paperback (252 pages, in French).
A Peruvian tourist in Florence sees in a photography exhibition a man speaking surrounded by Machiguenga indigenous people. The discovery opens the memory of a threatened Amazonian people, with their mythology and their attempt to stop the fall of the sun; between memory and fabulation, the work explores oral tradition and the clash between modernity and indigenous cultures.
«L'homme qui parle» is Albert Bensoussan's French translation of the Spanish original «El hablador», from 1987, and was published in 1989 in the «Du monde entier» collection.
For readers of Latin American fiction who read French and want to approach Mario Vargas Llosa's work on the Amazonian peoples of Peru.
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".
