{"product_id":"paraiso-en-la-otra-esquina-el","title":"Paradise at the Other Corner","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo lives\u003c\/b\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo conceptions of sex\u003c\/b\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat 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 \u003ci\u003eEl Paraíso en la otra esquina\u003c\/i\u003e (2003): the world of utopias that was the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Given Vargas Llosa's mastery, the result is not just valuable, but fascinating; it is not one great novel but two great novels, two historical narratives... A masterful book, which are two, just as there are two paradises evoked here.»\u003cbr\u003eRafael Conte, \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«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.»\u003cbr\u003eJosé Miguel Oviedo, \u003ci\u003eABC Cultural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«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.»\u003cbr\u003eJoaquín Marco, \u003ci\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mario Vargas Llosa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536103309560,"sku":"9788490625910","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P62591B.jpg?v=1671634794","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/paraiso-en-la-otra-esquina-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}