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«Les réputations» is the novel by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, published by Seuil in paperback (192 pages, in French).
The celebrated Colombian political cartoonist Javier Mallarino, now retired, is honored at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá; after the event, a young woman asks him for an interview that forces him to revisit an episode of his past. The novel explores memory, guilt and the power of public opinion and the media.
It was originally published as «Las reputaciones»; in this French edition, it is translated by Isabelle Gugnon. It won the Real Academia Española Prize (2014) and the San Clemente Prize (2015).
For those interested in contemporary Latin American narrative, literary fiction and stories about memory and the power of public opinion.
