Mario Vargas Llosa
Paperback | Pages: 592 pages Rating: 3.82 | 3765 Users | 292 Reviews
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| Title | : | El Paraíso en la otra esquina |
| Author | : | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 592 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2004 by Punto de Lectura (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Latin American. Literature. Art. Novels |
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¿Dónde se encuentra el Paraíso? ¿En la construcción de una sociedad igualitaria o en la vuelta al mundo primitivo?Dos vidas: la de Flora Tristán, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasión por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahití en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones.
Dos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que sólo ve en él un instrumento de dominio masculino y la de Gauguin, que lo considera una fuerza vital imprescindible puesta al servicio de su creatividad.
¿Qué tienen en común esas dos vidas desligadas y opuestas, aparte del vínculo familiar por ser Flora la abuela materna de Gauguin? Esto es lo que Vargas Llosa pone de relieve en esta novela: el mundo de utopías que fue el siglo XIX. Un nexo de unión entre dos personajes que optan por dos modelos vitales opuestos que desvelan un deseo común: el de alcanzar un paraíso donde sea posible la felicidad para los seres humanos.
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In 1844, Flora Tristan embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. In 1891, her grandson Paul Gauguin set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilization and paint primitive masterpieces. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this deft, utterly absorbing novel.brbrFlora, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty, and after fleeing a brutal husband, journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return, she makes her name as a popular writer and a champion of the downtrodden, setting herself the arduous task of touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. Paul, struggling painter and stubborn visionary, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works.
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| Original Title: | El paraíso en la otra esquina |
| ISBN: | 8466313230 (ISBN13: 9788466313230) |
| Edition Language: | Spanish |
| Characters: | Paul Gauguin, Flora Tristan |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 3765 Users | 292 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books El Paraíso en la otra esquina
Whenever I see this novel on my shelf, I get that strange feeling reserved for rare pieces of fiction, that feeling of: "Yes, that is why we read, why we write, why we fight, why we paint, why we live!" In an interconnected story, Vargas Llosa describes the lives of Gauguin and his grandmother fighting for art and for women's rights respectively. While using historical facts accurately and offering convincing psychological portraits of the two protagonists, the writer himself emerges in everyIn the abstract, there's something very compelling about the structure MVL has chosen the alternating chapters tell the story of Gauguin and his grandmother, the social reformer Flora Tristan, two utopians that seem out of time, and who both eventually run out of time. The English title reads like a slight misnomer; Vargas Llosa is much more interested in exploring how someone becomes the kind of person seeking transcendence or revolution, despite its distance, than in which hopeless route they
What Hesse did for Siddhartha Gautama in 'Siddhartha', so does Llosa for Paul Gauguin (and his grandmother) in 'The way to Paradise'. A vast and powerful work, it had me stopping in parts just to step back and admire the awesomeness of his writing for a spell. Truly he is one of the giants of literature, and one whom I have been hooked on since I read 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' in my teens.
Loved your review. Inspiring as usual!
2.5 starsAn interesting read though not gripping enough and a bit too long to keep me interested. At a certain point it became too repetitive to hold my attention and I was longing to finish. Also I didn't like the switch between the "present" and the past, even within a chapter which made it confusing and tiring. I think had it been like 150 pages shorter I would have given it one star more, but as it is now I can't give it more than 2.5 stars.
"The way to paradise" an clever double biography written as a novel, it took me a couple of chapters to realise what i was reading; biographies of Gaugin and his grandmother. I couldn't put this down.
This utterly brilliant book presents,in alternating chapters, the account of a woman dedicated to social reform and the stormy life and death of her grandson.Their lives barely overlap in time,and on the surface,could hardly be more different.Yet both individuals displayed throughout their lives a passion for justice,and both overcame the bourgeouse ethics of the day to forge new and important standards for the world.I dont think it is much of a spoiler to reveal that the grandson here is Paul
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