A common thread between two characters who choose two opposing life models that reveal a common desire: that of reaching a paradise where happiness is possible for human beings.Two lives: that of Flora Tristán, who puts all her efforts into the fight for the rights of women an...
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Paradise at the Other Corner
A common thread between two characters who choose two opposing life models that reveal a common desire: that of reaching a paradise where happiness is possible for human beings. Two lives: that of Flora Tristán, who puts all her efforts into the fight for the rights of women and workers, and that of Paul Gauguin, the man who discovers his passion for painting and abandons his bourgeois existence to travel to Tahiti in search of a world untainted by conventions. Two conceptions of sex: that of Flora, who only sees it as an instrument of male domination, and that of Gauguin, who considers it an essential vital force placed at the service of his creativity. What do these two disengaged and opposing lives have in common, apart from the family bond of Flora being Gauguin's maternal grandmother? This is what Vargas Llosa highlights in El Paraíso en la otra esquina (2003): the world of utopias that was the 19th century. Critics have said... «The documentation and research work behind its construction is truly impressive, and no less so is the perfect way he merges the real and the fictional... as for the epic proportions that his stories can reach, perhaps there is no one in our language who can surpass him now.» «Vargas Llosa's novel is proof of his ability to imaginatively recreate the past and allow us, as readers, to extract various and even contradictory moral options.» |
Editorial: DEBOLSILLO Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 528 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español |
