Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe--Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet--he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.

Translated to over 30 languages, this is perhaps Vargas Llosa s most violent book. Set in a military school in Lima, where an unwritten code of survival of the fittest is imposed. Here, he focuses on the brutality of military life and the strong pyramidal hierarchy that mirrors Peruvian society, where violence, exploitation and human degradation guarantee that each layer of the social pyramid maintains its place. All the conflicts of Peruvian society arise with rage and impotence in this testimonial novel in which Vargas Llosa paints a social and political picture.

An exemplary novel in the history of the boom in Latin American literature, La casa verde is a must for every reader who wants an in-depth knowledge of the narrative work of Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel takes place in two very distant points: Piura, in the desert of coastal Peru, and Santa Maria de Nieva, a factory/mission compound lost in the heart of the Amazonia. The symbol that locks the mystery of this story is the mythical pleasure house that Don Anselmo, the foreigner, erects in the outskirts of Piura. Description in Spanish: La casa verde transcurre en dos lugares muy alejados entre si: Piura, en el desierto del litoral peruano, y Santa Maria de Nieva, una factoria y mision religiosa perdida en el corazon de la Amazonia. Simbolo de la historia es la mitica casa de placer que don Anselmo, el forastero, erige en las afueras de Piura. Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La casa verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra narrativa de Mario Vargas Llosa.

One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique’s wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique’s lawyer and best friend. When Garro shows up murdered, the two couples are thrown into a whirlwind of navigating Peru’s unspoken laws and customs, while the staff of the magazine embark on their greatest exposé yet.
Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, the novel swirls into the kind of restless realism that has become Mario Vargas Llosa’s signature style. A twisting, unpredictable tale, The Neighborhood is at once a scathing indictment of Fujimori’s regime and a crime thriller that evokes the vulgarity of freedom in a corrupt system.

A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town. Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic analysis, Conversation in The Cathedral is a groundbreaking novel that tackles identity as well as the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a people and a nation.

Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardo s life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring in the backdrop are Peru s history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japan's big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s. Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure. Which is the true face of love? Description in Spanish: Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor? Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueno que en su Lima natal alimento desde que tenia uso de razon: vivir en Paris. Pero el reencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiara todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmatica e inquieta, lo arrastrara fuera del pequeno mundo de sus ambiciones. Testigos de epocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, Paris, Tokio o Madrid, ambos personajes veran sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Entre lo comico y lo tragico, la realidad y la ficcion, Travesuras de la nina mala logra retratar al amor indefinible, dueno de mil caras, como la nina mala. Pasion y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute.

书名原文:Historia de mayta

En Cinco esquinas, Mario Vargas Llosa crea un mural riquísimo en detalles y contrastes en el que personajes de muy distintos ambientes sociales se ven afectados por el pavor provocado por el terrorismo de Sendero Luminoso, el periodismo amarillista y la corrupción asociada a las esferas de poder durante el gobierno de Fujimori. La historia comienza cuando Rolando Garro, director de un semanario sensacionalista, intenta destruir la reputación de un exitoso ingeniero de minas con unas fotos en las que aparece en una situación comprometida. Todo se tambalea cuando la miseria moral se pone de manifiesto.

Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.""The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane.Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the "New York Times Book Review."

La maestria de Mario Vargas Llosa se hace patente en estas paginas, un impresionante mosaico de situaciones humanas a las que solo un escritor de su calibre podia dar tanto dramatismo y profundidad En el campamento minero de Naccos en las montanas del Peru han desaparecido tres hombres. El cabo Lituma, asignado a esta zona, vive agobiado por el misterio de las desapariciones y no cesa en su intento por dar con los responsables de estas muertes. Con su adjunto Tomas, se hallan sumidos en un ambiente barbaro y hostil de desconfianza generalizada, donde se funden mito y realidad bajo la constante amenaza de los guerrilleros maoistas del Sendero Luminoso. Como contrapunto a este drama colectivo esta la historia intima de estos personajes, en especial la de un antiguo amor de Tomas, que el mismo narra en forma de episodios intercalados que se dan en las noches de desvelo y conversaciones con su superior. El aliento mitico de la narracion, en la que se entreven otras muchas siluetas energicamente trazadas, infunde una extraordinaria vida a realidades que se observan de un modo implacable y minucioso, haciendo de esta novela un clasico.

Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardo's life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring in the backdrop are Peru's history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japan's big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s. Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand face

在勇氣與懦弱之間，世界變了顏色……
一場眾人屏息、預備宰殺「公羊」的盛宴就要展開……
終局真能成功嗎？
「天賦如有神助的說故事者」、世界桂冠的榮耀
2010年獲得世界矚目的諾貝爾文學獎得主──巴爾加斯．尤薩
當代文學大師「弒神」力作，描繪多明尼加大獨裁者畫像，揭開驚人的政治陰謀。
以最高度寫實的技法，刻畫獨裁者特魯希優最暴力、瘋狂與情色的幽暗角落！
瑞典皇家學院頌辭：「作品構圖法般的有力結構，犀利刻印出個人的掙扎、反叛和挫敗。」
從獨裁到滅亡，刻畫多國殘暴血腥的歷史、以神自尊的王者如何瞬間衰敗！
尤薩說：「西班牙文裡最珍貴的字就是『自由』。」
他將獨裁、權勢、腐敗與性之間的神秘關係解密，
黑暗的大獨裁者世界，令人屏息……
擅說故事的尤薩，用寫實的筆法，三線併呈的敘述結構，以受害女子探視父親的一天開始，女子對過往的追想、獨裁元首如何開始一天的生活、謀反者如何叛變的過程，三者輪番敘述，深刻呈現一個強權領導走向滅亡的時代！更將歷史上有名的多明尼加獨裁者特魯希優時代，其殘暴、色情與荒誕，刻畫得淋漓盡致！
多明尼加共和國前獨裁者特魯希優，這個被描繪為魔鬼的獨裁者曾對三百多萬多明尼加人施行了極端殘酷的暴政，在他三十多年（1930-1961）的專制統治下，整個國家陷入人間煉獄……
闊別祖國、逃亡美國三十五年的烏菈妮雅，終於回到了故鄉多明尼加共和國，然而面對老邁的父親，積壓三十餘年憤怒的她該如何開口？
三十五年前，整個多明尼加共和國處於冷血獨裁者特魯希優的統治下，烏菈妮雅的父親「智多星」卡布拉爾，正是這位獨裁者的得力助手。當時還是十四歲少女的烏菈妮雅，而今已經年近半百的婦人，三十五年來，她不願面對、不想再理會的父親也已經衰老，不僅行動不便更是喪失了語言能力。烏菈妮雅的姑媽不能理解為何她從不曾探望自己父親，這回，烏菈妮雅不僅面對所有質問，更緩緩訴說起三十多年前的傷痛記憶，還有那些錯雜糾纏的政治陰謀，以及毀了她一生的秘密……

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' ("Bookforum"), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.

"A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2007""""Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--"The New York Times Book Review "Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship her. Charting Ricardo's expatriate life through his romances with this shape-shifting woman, Vargas Llosa has created a beguiling, epic romance about the life-altering power of obsession.

The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it
Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today.
In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent by manipulating its history.
Harsh Times is a gripping, revealing novel that directly confronts recent history. No one is better suited to tell this riveting story than Vargas Llosa, and there is no form better for it than his deeply textured fiction. Not since The Feast of the Goat, his classic novel of the downfall of Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, has Vargas Llosa combined politics, characters, and suspense so unforgettably.