If you are looking for the usual silly love story, not approcciatevi to reading "The Adventures of bad girl" by Mario Vargas Llosa. Certainly it is a sweeping love story, mainly that for a woman changing, unpredictable, and a thousand faces, a difficult character to understand and appreciate, especially in the eyes of a reader is particularly sensitive and empathetic. But the little Niña Mala has a charisma and a palpable force, emerging from its risky choices and his change of dress. The novel is the tale of Ricardo, in love with a boy from the Chilean Lily and then, irrationally, its new forms and names, but also tells a love for the sights, scents and colors for typical a time and a very specific space and accurately described. In these pages you will be immersed browse through the wonderful writing Vargas Llosa, the tempera paintings full of rich and tasty: From Peru suffering the '60s, home of the protagonist and the same author, guerrilla war-torn country for freedom and justice Social carried out by the MIR, then up to the military coup that gives life to the government of General Velasco Alvarado, the Paris of the childhood dreams of Ricardo, the middle-class city, the soft colors and handed down from the rarefied atmosphere of those years he painted and photographed, the London of the transgression of the '70s night, impudent and charming on the one hand, snooty and the other class. And so on, in the eyes of a performer by trade, who travels the world and never has, alongside figures which give important lessons, but they are always and only the intense parentheses between paragraphs written by her, she exceeds and disrupts . Vargas Llosa has the power to drag the reader on a journey to the world and in the sensibility of the protagonist, through a direct writing, clear and convincing, perhaps the latter that makes the reader can not ignore the conditions of the burn wounds Ricardo. Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru, March 28, 1936, and in addition to being a novelist is also a journalist and a politician, having been presented as candidate for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as the favorite for most of the campaign. In his works, civic engagement and the testimony, historical and political, are always present, through a tragic human vision, no coincidence that in 2010 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his own mapping of the structures of power and his image of resistance, rebellion and the defeat of the individual. "
Giulia Zanella
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