Historia de Mayta / Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
Historia de Mayta / Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
- ISBN 13:
9789707709485
- ISBN 10:
9707709480
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 06/30/2007
- Publisher: Alfaguara
- Newer Edition
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Summary
In this novel Vargas Llosa introduces us to Mayta, the headman in a Trotskyist attempted coup in 1958. Using testimonies from those who knew him and the subsequent confrontation of this tale, charged with subjectivism,against reality, Vargas Llosa leads us to the intimate knowledge of a man, the embodiment of social exclusion, the son of a period of ideological conflicts and political passions, and to the understanding of a turnkey moment in theevolution of Latin America, a time of darkness, a time where the vindication of rights was achieved through violence. In the end, we?ll come to understand the limitations of truth, as History is written based on personal fiction and the language of fiction betrays reality.