Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La Casa Verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra narrativa del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010 y Principe de Asturias de las Letras, Mario Vargas Llosa. ?Cual es el secreto que encierra La casa verde? La Casa Verde ocurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre si: Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa Maria de Nieva, una factoria y mision religiosa perdida en el corazon de la Amazonia. Simbolo de la historia es la mitica casa de placer que don Anselmo, el forastero, erige en las afueras de Piura. La Casa Verde (1965) recibio al ano siguiente de su publicacion el Premio de la Critica y, en 1967, el Premio Internacional de Literatura Romulo Gallegos a la mejor novela en lengua espanola.

Vargas Llosa realiza un valiosisimo analisis de la obra de Juan Carlos Onetti haciendo hincapie en una preocupacion que comparte ambos autores: la complicada y al mismo tiempo necesaria relacion entre la ficcion literaria y la realidad. «El tema de la ficcion y la vida es una constante que, desde tiempos remotos, aparece en la literatura. Pero acaso en ningun otro autor moderno aparezca con tanta fuerza y originalidad como en las novelas y los cuentos de Juan Carlos Onetti, una obra que, sin exagerar demasiado, podriamos decir esta casi integramente concebida para mostrar la sutil y frondosa manera como los seres humanos hemos venido construyendo una vida paralela, de palabras e imagenes tan mentirosas como persuasivas, donde ir a refugiarnos para escapar de los desastres y limitaciones que a nuestra libertad y a nuestros suenos opone la vida tal como es. Basicamente lo que yo hago en este ensayo es investigar la manera en la que Onetti utilizo la ficcion como un mundo alternativo. La respuesta a la derrota cotidiana es la imaginacion: huir hacia un mundo de fantasia. Es decir, aquella operacion de donde nacio la literatura, por la que existe la literatura y por eso el titulo del libro.» Mario Vargas Llosa

Vargas Llosa realiza un valiosisimo analisis de la obra de Juan Carlos Onetti haciendo hincapie en una preocupacion que comparte ambos autores: la complicada y al mismo tiempo necesaria relacion entre la ficcion literaria y la realidad. «El tema de la ficcion y la vida es una constante que, desde tiempos remotos, aparece en la literatura. Pero acaso en ningun otro autor moderno aparezca con tanta fuerza y originalidad como en las novelas y los cuentos de Juan Carlos Onetti, una obra que, sin exagerar demasiado, podriamos decir esta casi integramente concebida para mostrar la sutil y frondosa manera como los seres humanos hemos venido construyendo una vida paralela, de palabras e imagenes tan mentirosas como persuasivas, donde ir a refugiarnos para escapar de los desastres y limitaciones que a nuestra libertad y a nuestros suenos opone la vida tal como es. Basicamente lo que yo hago en este ensayo es investigar la manera en la que Onetti utilizo la ficcion como un mundo alternativo. La respuesta a la derrota cotidiana es la imaginacion: huir hacia un mundo de fantasia. Es decir, aquella operacion de donde nacio la literatura, por la que existe la literatura y por eso el titulo del libro.» Mario Vargas Llosa

When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. While attempting to field the scandal, the businessman's wife, seeking comfort, begins a secret affair with the wife of his best friend. Then the editor is found murdered, and the two couples have no choice but to descend into the murkiest depths of Peruvian society, while the magazine's staff embarks on its greatest revelation yet…

Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage, in which some persecutors end up as victims of the very plot they helped construct. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don’t take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins’ threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune. Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil…

The Way to Paradise interweaves the story of the painter Paul Gauguin with that of his grandmother, Flora Tristan. In 1844, Flora embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. In 1891, her grandson set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilisation and seek out inspiration to paint his primitive masterpieces. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The Way to Paradise shows Mario Vargas Llosa at the peak of his powers.

Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign. In 1961, Trujillo's decadent inner circle (which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized.

Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Mario, an aspiring writer, works at a radio station that broadcasts, live each day, up to a half-dozen short-run soap operas. At the same time that the author meets his “Aunt Julia”, the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho to write the serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter’s rise and fall in tandem with the protagonist’s affair.

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' Mario Vargas Llosa The Book of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, 'variations on favourite themes... combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as 'The Congress', 'Undr' and 'The Mirror and the Mask'. Also included are the handful of stories written right at the end of Borges' life - 'August 25, 1983', 'Blue Tigers', 'The Rose of Paracelsus' and 'Shakespeare's Memory.

Edicion escolar del clasico mas popular de Ernest Hemingway, que le valio el premio Pulitzer en 1953. Con un lenguaje de gran fuerza y sencillez, El viejo y el mar narra la historia de un viejo pescador cubano a quien la suerte parece haber abandonado, y del desafio mayor al que se enfrenta: la batalla despiadada y sin tregua con un pez gigantesco en las aguas del golfo. Escrito en 1952 por encargo de la revista Life, este relato lo confirmo como uno de los escritores mas significativos del siglo XX. La presente edicion escolar incluye material didactico a cargo de Maribel Cruzado. Resenas: "Su mejor obra. El tiempo demostrara que es la mejor que cualquiera de nosotros haya escrito, y con eso me refiero a sus coetaneos y a los mios." William Faulkner "Al igual que Rousseau, Hemingway nos ha senalado como prueba del valor humano la capacidad de medirse, de lograr, de fracasar." Italo Calvino "Tal vez en ningun otro escritor moderno la proeza fisica, el coraje, la fuerza bruta y el espiritu de destruccion alcanzan una dignidad parecida." Mario Vargas Llosa "En sus paginas descubri que la vida alcanzaba verdadera categoria si la asumiamos decididos a llegar al final de las empresas, sin que importase si estas eran o no trascendentes para los demas." Luis Sepulveda

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest expose yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa's signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system.

From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru's unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest expose yet. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa's signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori's regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system.

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En Adiós, Hemingway regresa su personaje icónico, Mario Conde, el detective que protagoniza su tetralogía «Las cuatro estaciones». Es una novela en la que conviven, muchas veces de forma indiferenciada, realidad y ficción. Conde, en primera persona, nos cuenta una investigación que tiene lugar en la casa habanera de Ernest Hemingway. Paralelamente, el propio escritor estadounidense va relatando sus últimos tiempos en la isla. En la novela, donde el autor se permite deformar a su modo la realidad en beneficio del hilo argumental, iremos descubriendo, enredados en la investigación policial, los sentimientos encontrados de Mario Conde — en realidad los del propio Padura — hacia Hemingway. Incluye: El texto se acompaña de notas de vocabulario y explicaciones culturales, siempre contextualizadas en la propia obra. Contiene una propuesta de explotación didáctica sobre aspectos lingüísticos y literarios, con actividades de prelectura, lectura y poslectura y las claves de resolución de los ejercicios.

"De repente, las ventanas de la casa se abrieron. Eran rojas y estaban enfadadas". De la mano de Steven Spielberg nos llega esta historia animada de suspense-ficcion. Es la noche de los muertos vivientes, pero este ano DJ Walters no saldra a la busqueda de caramelos. Quiere observar la casa de enfrente. Sabe que la casa es muy extrana. Y ahora se esta comiendo cosas... ?y a gente! DJ y sus dos amigos, Croqueta y Jenny, intentan hablar con la policia, pero como no les creen, los chicos deberan entrar solos en "La casa de los sustos". Incluye un CD audio con la narracion de la historia y fichas tecnicas sobre Halloween en diferentes paises, casas extranas y el circo.