The Green House (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Forty years that include World War II
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1940’s, Prostitution or prostitutes, 1920’s, 1930’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Jungles or rain forests, Rivers or waterways, Amazon, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Convents or nunneries
- Locales: Peru
Places Discussed
*Piura. Provincial city in Peru where Vargas Llosa grew up, attended college, and wrote for a local newspaper. The Green House draws upon experiences he had there; its story line about the virgin Bonifacia, who is taken from the Amazon jungle to the Piura brothel is inspired by a trip he made with anthropologists on which he saw how Indian girls were drafted into prostitution.
Green House. Piura brothel around which the novel’s stories are interwoven in a nonlinear narrative. The novel’s title links the primal lusts of civilization in Piura,...
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