Conversation in the Cathedral (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1960’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Political fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, Class conflict, 1940’s, Upper classes, Servants, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians
- Locales: Lima, Peru
Places Discussed
*Lima. Capital city of Peru. Mario Vargas Llosa often draws from his personal experiences to write about corruption and injustice in modern Latin America. In this novel he uses his intimate knowledge of Lima as the basis for his story. As a young man, he spent two years at Lima’s Leoncio Prado Military Academy, where his father sent him after discovering that he wrote poetry, to him, an unmasculine pursuit. Vargas Llosa found the school’s restrictions, discipline, and bullying atmosphere unbearable. His first novel, The Time of the Hero (1962),...
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