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Original Title:	El paraíso en la otra esquina
ISBN:	8466313230 (ISBN13: 9788466313230)
Edition Language:	Spanish
Characters:	Paul Gauguin, Flora Tristan

El Paraíso en la otra esquina

Mario Vargas Llosa

Paperback | Pages: 592 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 3765 Users | 292 Reviews

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Title	:	El Paraíso en la otra esquina
Author	:	Mario Vargas Llosa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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

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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. In English: 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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BOOK 3 - Around the World Read - PeruMario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru and as of this book's publication in 2003, lived in London. I pulled this off the library shelf at random, having never heard of it or of the author. Then at home I turned to the text and started reading. I went in knowing absolutely nothing about this work, and sometimes that makes all the difference.SUMMARYA woman, Flora Tristan, fights for worker's and women's rights in Europe while her grandson, Paul Gaugin,

When the 2010 Nobel Prize for literature was announced I ran to the library, and this was the only Vargas Llosa. The Way to Paradise: A Novel, by Nobel-prize winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, is a sweeping reimagining of the artist Paul Gauguin and his suffragette grandmother, Flora Tristan. While Peruvian writer, Llosa has woven the two tales with admirable imagination, switching narratives from grandmother to grandson with lines that never cross (the two never met), his second person remarks,

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

Another wonderful and perceptive piece of historical fiction from MVL, this time about the French painter Paul Gaugin and his grandmother Flora Tristán. I had no idea that Gaugin was part-Peruvian and what a tragic but interesting life she led. The book is divided (as many of MVL's books including his autobiography) with alternate chapters dealing with Flora's life during her last few months and Paul/Koké's life towards the end of his life in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. The writing is - as

Very well written and structured...I think no reader can get enough of the two parallel stories, of the two lives of Paul Gauguin, famous painter, and Flora Tristan, his grandmother and feminist. I loved (again) the fact that Vargas Llosa expresses directly his thoughts towards his heroes. It maybe Llosa or their inner voice, asking them what they did and what they should do.

Whenever I see this novel on my shelf, I get that strange feeling reserved for rare pieces of fiction, that feeling of: "Yes, that is why we read, why we write, why we fight, why we paint, why we live!" In an interconnected story, Vargas Llosa describes the lives of Gauguin and his grandmother fighting for art and for women's rights respectively. While using historical facts accurately and offering convincing psychological portraits of the two protagonists, the writer himself emerges in every

This utterly brilliant book presents,in alternating chapters, the account of a woman dedicated to social reform and the stormy life and death of her grandson.Their lives barely overlap in time,and on the surface,could hardly be more different.Yet both individuals displayed throughout their lives a passion for justice,and both overcame the bourgeouse ethics of the day to forge new and important standards for the world.I dont think it is much of a spoiler to reveal that the grandson here is Paul