The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta

Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
June 14 1998
EAN: 9780374525552
ISBN: 0374525552

Review Quotes:

"With [The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta] Mario Vargas Llosa . . . has replaced Gabriel García Márquez as the South American novelist for gringos to catch up on." --John Updike, The New Yorker

"A glittering trompe l'oeil of a novel about the revolutionary temperament--and the nature of fiction." -- The New York Times

"Mario Vargas Llosa [is] one of the master storytellers of our time." -- Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World

"In a way, this novel about an obscure Peruvian revolutionary is a perfect introduction to Vargas Llosa." -- Terrence Rafferty, The Nation

Biographical Note:
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025.

Publisher Marketing:

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.

Contributor Bio:Llosa, Mario Vargas
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025.