An edition of El pez en el agua (1993)

A fish in the water

a memoir

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An edition of El pez en el agua (1993)

A fish in the water

a memoir

1st ed.
  • 7 Want to read

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.

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English
Pages
532

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A fish in the water: a memoir
1995, Faber & Faber
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A Fish in the Water
October 1, 1995, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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A fish in the water: a memoir
1994, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
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El pez en el agua: memorias
1993, Seix Barral
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Edition Notes

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863, B
Library of Congress
PQ8498.32.A65 P4913 1994, PQ8498.32.A65 Z46 1994, PQ8498.32.A65P4913

The Physical Object

Pagination
532 p. ;
Number of pages
532

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1431153M
Internet Archive
fishinwatermemoi00varg
ISBN 10
0374155097
LCCN
93042603
OCLC/WorldCat
29390234
Library Thing
70143
Goodreads
1292005

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