El Pez En El Agua (spanish Edition)

This work by the renowned Peruvian author allows us to glimpse into the key years of his youth until his candidacy for President of Peru. These are stark, unadorned truths revealed through his hypnotic and masterly prose. The strained relationship between the author and his harsh, violent father; the discovery of his calling as a writer as a means to oppose parental authoritarianism, the precocious bohemia, the hasty wedding with la tia Julia (aunt Julia) and the short, yet intense, political career of the writer. Spanish description: La obra del escritor peruano se sustenta en numerosos acontecimientos personales que transcurrieron en su juventud. La dificil relacion con un padre duro y violento, el nacimiento de la vocacion de escritor como oposicion a esa autoridad, los anos del colegio militar Leoncio Prado, la precoz vida bohemia, la precipitada boda con la tia Julia o la existencia real de La casa verde. Ademas, y a modo de contrapeso, conocemos la corta pero intensa carrera politica del escritor. Esos tres anos que transcurrieron desde la improvisada movilizacion popular de la Plaza de San Martin en oposicion a la politica de Alan Garcia hasta la definitiva derrota ante Fujimori. In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. His campaign against (and ultimate defeat by) Alberto Fujimori was the stuff of international headlines, transforming an eminent writer into a politician of world stature. A Fish in the Water is Vargas Llosa's disarming and deeply absorbing response to that profoundly heady - and troubling - experience. This is a twofold book: a memoir of the formation of one of Latin America's most celebrated artists, from his birth in Arequipa in 1936 to his departure for Europe to make his career as a writer, and, in alternating chapters, the story of Vargas Llosa's organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the presidency. In this richly personal work, Vargas Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, including his stay at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy, which was the basis of his first book, The Time of the Hero, and his desperate attempts to marry while still a minor, as recounted in hilarious detail in Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In parallel, he describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for modern democracy and a free-market economy. Offering an unexpectedly intimate look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous and original politician and thinker. A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning. This work by the renowned Peruvian author allows us to glimpse into the key years of his youth until his candidacy for President of Peru. These are stark, unadorned truths revealed through his hypnotic and masterly prose. The strained relationship between the author and his harsh, violent father; the discovery of his calling as a writer as a means to oppose parental authoritarianism, the precocious bohemia, the hasty wedding with la ta Julia (aunt Julia) and the short, yet intense, political career of the writer. Description in La obra del escritor peruano se sustenta en numerosos acontecimientos personales que transcurrieron en su juventud. La difcil relacin con un padre duro y violento, el nacimiento de la vocacin de escritor como oposicin a esa autoridad, los aos del colegio militar Leoncio Prado, la precoz vida bohemia, la precipitada boda con la ta Julia o la existencia real de La casa verde. Adems, y a modo de contrapeso, conocemos la corta pero intensa carrera poltica del escritor. Esos tres aos que transcurrieron desde la improvisada movilizacin popular de la Plaza de San Martn en oposicin a la poltica de Alan Garca hasta la definitiva derrota ante Fujimori. I. ESE SEÑOR QUE ERA MI PAPÁ......Page 6 II. LA PLAZA SAN MARTÍN......Page 18 III. LIMA LA HORRIBLE......Page 28 IV. EL FRENTE DEMOCRÁTICO......Page 42 V. EL CADETE DE LA SUERTE......Page 53 VI. RELIGIÓN, MUNICIPIOS Y TRASEROS......Page 65 VII. PERIODISMO Y BOHEMIA......Page 74 VIII. EL MOVIMIENTO LIBERTAD......Page 82 IX. EL TÍO LUCHO......Page 95 X. VIDA PUBLICA......Page 108 XI. CAMARADA ALBERTO......Page 120 XII. INTRIGANTES Y DRAGONES......Page 133 XIII. EL SARTRECILLO VALIENTE......Page 141 XIV. EL INTELECTUAL BARATO......Page 157 XV. LA TÍA JULIA......Page 166 XVI. EL GRAN CAMBIO......Page 180 XVII. EL PÁJARO-MITRA......Page 196 XVIII. LA GUERRA SUCIA......Page 209 XIX. EL VIAJE A PARÍS......Page 233 XX. PUNTO FINAL......Page 243 COLOFÓN......Page 271