A Fish in the Water

Mario Vargas Llosa

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571299393
• Year: 2012

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.

Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, and describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for a free-market economy.

A deeply absorbing look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous writer with strong political commitments, A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• 1: The Man Who Was My Papa
• 2: The Plaza San Martín
• 3: Lima the Horrible
• 4: The Democratic Front
• 5: The Cadet
• 6: Religion, Municipal Elections, and Backsides
• 7: Journalism and Bohemi
• 8: The Freedom Movement
• 9: Uncle Lucho
• 10: Public Life
• 11: Comrade Alberto
• 12: Schemers and Dragons
• 13: The Fierce Little Sartrean
• 14: Cut-Rate Intellectuals
• 15: Aunt Julia
• 16: The Great Change
• 17: The Miter-Bird
• 18: The Dirty War
• 19: The Trip to Paris
• 20: Period
• Colophon
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright