The War of the End of the World Review: Análisis de la novela

The title and the synopsis of the book pointed to a magical literary journey. However, Vargas Llosa's work is beyond the fantastic as it is within the realms ...

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Like Brazil at the dawn of the century, ''The War of the End of the World'' looks both forward and backward; the forces acted out are eternal ...

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Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the unforgettable story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in ...

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The War of the End of the World is a hard book to read, with many different themes to take into consideration and reflect on.

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Review. “A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood.” ―Salman Rushdie, The New Republic “A vast, fantastic, thunderous novel.” ―The ...

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The War of the End of the World is a sprawling, magnificent epic based on a true incident that happened in the Bahia region of Brazil ...

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by J McClure · 1985 — Many, many worlds are destroyed in this novel about a "War of the End of the World," and Vargas. Llosa makes us feel the loss of each. The brunt of destruction ...

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The story of Canudos is plenty captivating without having to stoop to sentimentality. Vargas either needed to make this as realistic as possible or run with his ...

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An amazingly intricate and ambitious first novel - ten years in the making - that puts an engrossing new spin on the traditional haunted-house ...

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The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa seems bent on spinning out a yarn guaranteed to exhaust its audience before it exhausts his imagination.

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