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| Title | : | El Paraíso en la otra esquina |
| Author | : | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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 |
Mario Vargas Llosa
Paperback | Pages: 592 pages Rating: 3.82 | 3765 Users | 292 Reviews
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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 ReviewsColumn Epithetical Books El Paraíso en la otra esquina
Loved your review. Inspiring as usual!I don't see this in lists of recommended MVL novels, so I guess for him it's a minor work. But I really liked it. The two stories, told in alternating chapters, of Paul Gauguin and his socialist-feminist grandmother Flora Tristan, echo each other and yet also provide critical contrasts. Flora's heroic self-denial and convictions about the subjugation of women (and its connection to class struggle) are juxtaposed with Gauguin's often rather exploitative version of liberation from bourgeois sexual
In 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
Two parallel stories.First, the life of Gauguin, the French painter. We follow his steps into the world of arts and insanity. We follow his path between Paris and Tahiti.Then, the life of his grandmother, an activist for worker's rights in the French society of her time. We understand her struggle, her fight, her motivations.A beautifully written novel that highlights secrets of these two outstandingl characters, with the peculiar style of Mario Vargas Llosa.
This is a secondary work by a writer who often attains greatness. I would not recommend it to anyone but diehard Vargas Llosa fans. For the normal reader it would be better to start with one of Vargas Llosa's masterpieces such as the War at the End of the World or Conversation in a Cathedral. It would be pointless to read an inferior work by this writer who has produced so many outstanding novels.Vargas Llosa is nonetheless a very intelligent observer of humanity and thus even when he is not at
A masterpiece of historical fiction: shows 2 different roads to Paradise (here, on Earth). First - Paul Gaugin, the painter, who is searching his paradise in Polynesia; second - Flora Tristan, his grandmother, searching for Paradise thru creating (or believing) in utopian society in which women enjoy basic human rights. Attention: therere a number of characters and the chapters told from different perspectives. Beautiful writing (style), a joy to read.
Recently I have become a big fan of Vargas Llosa and I read this book a few years back. It tells the gritty story of Paul Gauguin and how he ends up on Tahiti. Gauguin is rough and open to all sorts of experiences on the island and continues to make his new form of art.
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