[DeepL Translation - needs review] Vargas Llosa creates an exquisite satire of the popular novels that have been so successful in Spanish-speaking countries, while questioning the hypocrisy, racism and classism of the Lima society of the time, with the mastery to which we are accustomed.
"The novel genre was not born to tell truths, these, when passed to fiction, always become lies."
Mario Vargas Llosa
Already in the title of this novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 1977, the double st...
