Death in the Andes (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: The Andean highlands of Peru
- Principal Characters: Lituma, Tomás “Tomasito” Carreño, Dionisio, Adriana, Mercedes “Meche” Trelles
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism
- Subjects: Politics, Love or romance, Supernatural, Superstition, Human rights, Poverty or poor people, Economics, Mysteries, Spiritualism, Military life or service, Catholics or Catholic Church, Terrorism or terrorists, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Sacrifice
- Locales: Andes, Peru
Like Mario Vargas Llosa’s earlier novels, La casa verde (1966; The Green House, 1968) and Conversación en la Catedral, (1969; Conversation in the Cathedral, 1975), Death in the Andes is an ambitious novel about Peru in the last part of the twentieth century. The central question in Death in the Andes, to which there are no simple answers, is the following: What is it about Peru and about Peruvian culture and beliefs that has allowed the phenomenon of Shining Path guerrillas to represent part of its national identity? The basic structure of...
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