LA NUEVA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA Una historia de conspiraciones políticas e intereses encontrados durante la Guerra Fría. Una mentira que pasó por verdad y cambió el devenir de América Latina. «¿Era la historia esa fantástica tergiversación de la realidad?» Guatemala, 1954. El golpe militar perpetrado por Carlos Castillo LA NUEVA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA Una historia de conspiraciones pol?...
| Title | : | Tiempos recios |
| Author | : | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Rating | : | |
| Genres | : | Fiction |
| ISBN | : | B07VNP3QL6 |
| Edition Language | : | Spanish |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 pages pages |
Tiempos recios Reviews
This was my first Vargas Llosa novel and it did not disappoint. What an awful, and yet beautifully told , and partially true, story of the destruction of Guatemala's nascent democracy. This was my first Vargas Llosa novel and it did not disappoint. What an awful, and yet beauti...
On discovering Billie Holiday in my 20s I used to think with that voice, that soul, she could sing anything, the phone book, and it would be worthwhile, even essential, listening. Mario Vargas Llosa is to Spanish language literature what B Holiday was to jazz singing, and although in h...
4,5 This was my first novel by Vargas Llosa and I honestly did not expect such a fast-paced, page-turning, political spy thriller. What a good surprise! The book jumps back and forth in time in brief alternating chapters surrounding two events: one is the US-supported military coup ...
Tough Times. Reading Vargas Llosa is always a demanding pleasure. A pleasure because he knows how to weave a story with characters that either amaze, repel or worldly empathetic. Demanding because politics, ethics, history and human nature collide. And he makes you think. The st...- While I liked this book, I was troubled by the two Jewish characters at the beginning. A little research told me that they were part of the history of the United Fruit Company but that they were not the founders as portrayed in the book. Why did Mario Vargas Llosa want to present them ...
The latest delivery by Vargas Llosa might as well be the sequel to "The Feast of the Goat", as we find some events and characters from that previous novel. Although not as exciting and rich in detail as "The Feast of the Goat", this is nevertheless a well researched...
Fabuloso! Great writing, Vargas Llosa never disappoints. Too bad I was too young to remember this part of my beloved Guatemala? history . Unfortunately the huge division between our social classes and the discrimination towards our indigenous people does not allow the wealthy people ...- I feel that the book gave a very good accounting of the turbulent times in Guatemala during the 50s and the role played by United Fruit Company (UFCO) and anti-communism (McCarthyism) in the U.S. The plot was difficult to follow since there were jumps in time and I resorted to Wikipedi...
Flat. Dull. Confusing amount of half drawn characters. Long stints of pure exposition made the first half feel more like a bad history text than a novel by the master Vargas Llosa. Dissapointed. ...
This review is really a 3.5 stars. Although the book material is very interesting, MVL is sometimes repetitive and redundant when narrating certain facts. Again, the story is engrossing but MLV's writing is probably not his best one. This review is really a 3.5 stars. Although...
As usual, Vargas Llosa did not disappoint. Hard Times is another masterpiece by this great author. Interesting and engaging story that opens a whole new area of interest to me. The influence of McCarthyism in Central America, and its consequences on the radicalization of Castro?s reg...
Tiempos Recios is another historical fiction book by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. In this case, the story takes place in Guatemala mostly during the 40's and 50's of the 20th century. They were turbulent decades for this Central American country whose fate appears t...
"Tough Times" is apparently the English translation, and I certainly had a tough time reading this. It could just not get into the story - maybe because all parts of it were so foreign to me that I could not find a single point of connection? Maybe because the style was weird...- Great novel A story about South America till the sixties, with its dictators, dreamers and lovers. You are compeled to open Google after reading each chapter.. The last page is astonishing ...
Too much infodump. Feels like reading a history textbook at times. ...
Mario Vargas Llosa es uno de mis escritores favoritos. Leí el libro (es de p.m.!) en español pero voy a escribir mi receña en ingles. Since my written Spanish is much worse than my reading in that language, I'll write my mini-review in English, though I read the book in Spa...
Another clear masterpiece from the Nobel prize winner. The quality of this man only seems to get better with the years. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in an accurately potrayal of US interventionism in Latin American and world political affairs and the consequences, a...
Marketed as a sort of sequel, or companion novel, to Mario Vargas Llosa's acclaimed "La Fiesta del Chivo", his latest novel sadly falls short of those lofty objectives. There is indeed a fascinating book sleeping inside this novel, but it does feel under-edited, sprea...
A historical novel that is not only entertaining, but also paints a very crude picture of the agents that have decided the destiny of Latin America. ...
too much a story about political intrigues to keep my attention dissapointing book by one of my favourite writers ...- Well written, it follows the same style as his last books (at least for me); however, Vargas Llosa never dissappoints. Even though I think he has better books within this style (La fiesta del Chivo for example) the history is presented in a way it intriges you and keeps you hooked. ...
One of the best books I have read from Mario Vargas Llosa. Its connection with The Feast of the Goat is clear. Again MVLL talks about frauds and dictatorship combining actual facts with fiction. It is written in a descriptive narrative style, very clean and clear. It creates an equilib...- This novel is about a coup that took place in Guatemala in 1954, and the aftermath. In this coup, Jacobo Arbenz was removed from the presidency. The United States, through the CIA, was one of the main participants in the coup. Tiempos recios lacks the suspense and impact of Vargas Llo...
- Outstanding I have read many of Llosa's novels and this was one of my favorites. "Tiempos Recios" brought to life that critical time during the cold war and the serious repercussions of the events that transpired due to the monkey business of the CIA. I had thought t...
- Good character development and good use of historical events in support of the story being told. Challenging dialog. ...
While it is fiction, this is essentially an account of the political upheavals in 1950s Guatemala. Vargas Llosa shows how Eisenhower's anti-communist hysteria permanently altered history in Central and South America. Really good stuff. While it is fiction, this is essentially ...- Another great story from the imagination of Peruvian Nobel Prize winner. ...
An excellent novel, probably the best of Vargas Llosa in recent years. The novel presents a very good overview of the C.I.A. supported cup which led to the fall of the presidency of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and many years of political struggle in that country. It shows the sad de...- A story of a conspiracy amidst the Cold War. The US plots to overthrow a progressive, liberal and democratic government of a small country in Latin America, Guatemala. The use of lies and creation of facts by foreign powers to manipulate public opinion resonates intensively with presen...
- Tiempos Recios (Fierce Times) is another historically-based novel of Vargas Llosa, this time telling the history of the 1954 CIA-orchestrated coup in Guatemala. It has a connection to a previous novel, La Fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat) about general Rafael Trujillo and the ev...
