History of mario vargas llosa

The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, , in the city of Arequipa. Although he has written most of his novels while living in Europe, based primarily in Paris, London, Barcelona, and Madrid, his early experiences and deep attachment to Peru have been his primary creative inspiration. Vargas Llosa has permanent residences in Barranco, a suburb of Lima, and in Madrid (he became a dual citizen of Spain in ), but he is an indefatigable traveler, a man of insatiable curiosity.

In the s, when he was a committed socialist, Vargas Llosa became an international literary sensation for his depiction of the corrosive effects of corruption on human hopes and aspirations. La cuidad y los perros (Time of the Hero, ) diagnoses the baseness of the social order through the microcosm of a military academy; La casa verde (The Green House, ) explores the brutality of a corrupt nation at its margins (the Amazonian jungle and the northern coastal area);