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<p><p><i>The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta</i> is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America. <p></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Despair hangs over this somber novel, a desolation as omnipresent as the garbage dumped on the streets of the author's native Lima. The setting is Peru in the near future, a military dictatorship besieged by Cuban-backed rebels and defended by U.S. Marines. An unnamed writer interviews people who were involved with his former classmate, Mayta, an idealistic radical whose journey through the various sects of the Peruvian left eventually led to his participation in a pathetic, doomed uprising in 1958. The writer seeks to understand what prompted Mayta to make this futile gesture, but finds only a tangle of disputed facts and self-serving statements; Mayta, he is told, was a homosexual, a police informant, even a thief. What is the truth? "Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream, and take refuge in illusion

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Author

Mario Vargas Llosa; Alfred J Mac Adam

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374525552

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (679 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14