Mario Vargas Llosa
Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.71 | 3238 Users | 204 Reviews
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| Original Title: | La casa verde |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Corporal Lituma |
| Setting: | Peru (Perú)(Peru) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1967), Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana (1967) |
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Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences.This brothel, called the Green House, brings together the innocent and the corrupt; Bonificia, a young Indian girl saved by the nuns only to become a prostitute; Father Garcia, struggling for the church; and four best friends drawn to both excitement and escape.The conflicting forces that haunt the Green House evoke a world balanced between savagery and civilization -- and one that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.Identify Appertaining To Books The Green House
| Title | : | The Green House |
| Author | : | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 1965) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature |
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Ratings: 3.71 From 3238 Users | 204 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books The Green House
How in love am I with my High Modernism in Latin America: Mario Vargas Llosa class? Well, I did manage to put up with this for 2 entire weeks, perhaps this is the most difficult of all his books (having read like half of the MVL library, almost). How difficult? Think: an extended version of Faulkners infuriating Sound and the Fury but modified for the tastes of an even more sophisticated reader, a worldlier one (Faulkners novel, on the other hand, seems more personal and small, siding more withThe Edge of ExistenceAlmost everyone in The Green House lives at the extreme edge of existence. But it is not death or annihilation that threatens; rather, it is an entirely different kind of existence. The novel opens with the abduction of two Amazonian Indian girls, an event that rips them out of their way of life and puts them into an alien land in which literally nothing has meaning for them. This is not merely displacement; it is an extinguishing of their former lives in all but their
When ever I come to names such as Llosa, Borges, Cortazar, Fuentes... I wish I knew Spanish language, as Im sure works by these authors would have a different aroma and melody in their own tongues. Llosa is, for me, one of the greatest story tellers, whose works give me deliciousness in Persian as well, (if its translated by Abdollah Kowsari, for example). Mario Bargas Llosa uses a highly sophisticated techniques with a very delicate language in multiple viewpoint, as if Im listening to Sare, my
The Edge of ExistenceAlmost everyone in The Green House lives at the extreme edge of existence. But it is not death or annihilation that threatens; rather, it is an entirely different kind of existence. The novel opens with the abduction of two Amazonian Indian girls, an event that rips them out of their way of life and puts them into an alien land in which literally nothing has meaning for them. This is not merely displacement; it is an extinguishing of their former lives in all but their
I have read bad books in my life. None worse than this one. I actually HATED this book. I could only make it to page 202. Very confusing, boring, pointless. I regret having wasted my time reading as much as I did. The plot is so inane that it does not merit further coment. This book has nothing to do with other masterpieces written by Vargas Llosa such as Travesuras de la Nina Mala (The Bad Girl), El Paraiso en la Otra Esquina (The Way to Paradise), and to a lesser extent, La Ciudad y Los Perros
This book is mainly about a village in Peru that lies between the jungle and the desert. A brothel that is built on the outskirts of village is at the heart of the story, and the effect it has on the lives of the village residents and the surrounding area are the threads of the story.I've never before read Llosa. It was an unusual reading experience for me, and at times I found it hard to follow. Even now that I've had plenty of time to reflect, I don't know if I loved it or hated it, or if it
Llosa's depiction of life in and around a Peruvian brothel is a tale of brutal cruelty. The military, church, government and many independent businessmen exploit the area breeding corruption and hypocrisy. The tale is certainly not new, but Llosa's impressionistic narrative and temporally disjunctive structure illustrates how deeply pervasive this corruption is.
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