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Two visions of paradise.(El Paralso en la otra esquina)(Book Review)

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Mario Vargas Llosa El Paralso en la otra esquina. Ediciones Alfaguara, 485 pages, $19.95

In Peru in the 1950S when he was a student, Matio Vargas Llosa read Flora Tristan's selfrevealing Peregrinations d'une paria (1838), with its vivid and often scathing impressions of Peruvian society,, a book that left a deep mark on him. As he told an interviewer from Le Figaro Littdraire in April 2003 who came to question him about his latest work of fiction, El Paraiso en la otra esquina, he may well have thought even then about writing a novel inspired by her tempestuous life. In his fascinating memoirs, El pez en el agua (1933), Vargas Llosa listed among his future ...

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