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| Original Title: | La casa verde |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Corporal Lituma |
| Setting: | Peru (Perú)(Peru) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1967), Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana (1967) |
Mario Vargas Llosa
Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.71 | 3238 Users | 204 Reviews
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Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences.This brothel, called the Green House, brings together the innocent and the corrupt; Bonificia, a young Indian girl saved by the nuns only to become a prostitute; Father Garcia, struggling for the church; and four best friends drawn to both excitement and escape.The conflicting forces that haunt the Green House evoke a world balanced between savagery and civilization -- and one that is cursed by not being able to discern between the two.
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| Title | : | The Green House |
| Author | : | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published 1965) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature |
Rating Out Of Books The Green House
Ratings: 3.71 From 3238 Users | 204 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books The Green House
I don't really know why I didn't love this book. The writing style is phenomenal. I didn't find it all that difficult to read. I started "Hopscotch" a while ago and that was much harder. Llosa can expertly bend the past and present into one while still bringing forth the forward movement of the plots. And speaking of plots, some were better than others. Bonificia's, I thought, was much better than Fushia and Aquilino's (Sr.), but not as good and Don Anselmo's, and especially that part aboutOne of the most intricate novels I have ever read. Not so much because of the plot or the subject, but thanks to the original style in which Llosa chose to write it. Nights full of blistering sand storms and luxurious jungle intertwine on the same sentence, characters mingle, time is but a notion with which the author plays in each chapter. Llosa shows us how easily humans can be corrupted and there is something that Anselmo says at one point: 'don't fool yourself, people are the same everywhere
It is an interesting book, and several of the stories really do pull you in, but the way he mixes storylines, jumping from one to the other, jumping back and fort in time in some of the stories, staying put in others while interesting does break the rythm at points. Good book with some really interesting themes
This book is mainly about a village in Peru that lies between the jungle and the desert. A brothel that is built on the outskirts of village is at the heart of the story, and the effect it has on the lives of the village residents and the surrounding area are the threads of the story.I've never before read Llosa. It was an unusual reading experience for me, and at times I found it hard to follow. Even now that I've had plenty of time to reflect, I don't know if I loved it or hated it, or if it
Life is too short--and I am too close to the end of it--for me to compel myself to continue reading books that I am not really enjoying or at least finding interesting. I found it too hard to follow the plot of The Green House, and I didn't really care about any of the characters, so I quit halfway through the book. The Green House was one of Vargas Llosa's earliest books (1965). I have liked 10 of the 12 of his books that I have read, and I'm looking forward to reading his newest book, the
Mario Vargas Llosa has, in The Green House, created a whole world that exists in the arc starting with Iquitos on the Amazon, to Santa Maria de Nieva in Amazonas, all the way to Piura in the desert of extreme northwestern Peru. It is a richly populated world, with governors, soldiers, police, nuns, priests, river pilots, dealers in rubber, whores, Amazonian Indians, mestizos, whites -- to the extent that one feels as if one were reading a Tolstoy novel. It starts slowly, and like a river that
How in love am I with my High Modernism in Latin America: Mario Vargas Llosa class? Well, I did manage to put up with this for 2 entire weeks, perhaps this is the most difficult of all his books (having read like half of the MVL library, almost). How difficult? Think: an extended version of Faulkners infuriating Sound and the Fury but modified for the tastes of an even more sophisticated reader, a worldlier one (Faulkners novel, on the other hand, seems more personal and small, siding more with
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