The Time of the Hero (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Rites of passage
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: The military academy Leoncio Prado in Lima, Peru
- Principal Characters: Alberto (the Poet), Jaguar, Ricardo Arana (the Slave), Boa, Lieutenant Gamboa, Teresa
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1950’s, Betrayal, Military life or service, South America or South Americans, Peru or Peruvians, Boys, Students or student life, Clubs, social
- Locales: Peru, Lima, Peru
The Novel
Based in part on Vargas Llosa’s experience as a cadet in the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru, from 1950 to 1952, The Time of the Hero is a fictionalized portrayal of a group of adolescent boys at the school during a three-year period which coincides, roughly, with the author’s own stay there.
The Time of the Hero is divided into two parts, of eight chapters each, and an epilogue. It has four narrators: an omniscient third-person narrator; two first-person narrators, Jaguar and Boa, whose identity is discovered only in the last...
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