CINCO ESQUINAS

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À conversa, sem os maridos, e desatentas da hora do recolher obrigatório, Chabela e Marisa terão de pernoitar juntas. O que aconteceu na cama nessa noite passará a ser um grande e saboroso segredo. Chabela é mulher de um advogado de renome; Marisa, de uma das figuras cimeiras da exploração mineira. O mundo perfeito em que vivem – não fora a constante ameaça dos guerrilheiros e sequestros – será fortemente abalado por um escândalo. Após tentativa de chantagem por parte de Rolando Garro, diretor do pasquim Destapes, a participação do engenheiro Enrique Cárdenas numa orgia será tornada pública em todos os seus pormenores mais sórdidos. Segue-se um assassínio brutal. Mas a relação de tudo isto com o poder político, nomeadamente com o homem que na verdade governa de forma corrupta e autoritária o país, o Doutor, braço direito do presidente, será trazida à luz: curiosamente pela coragem e fibra da redatora principal do referido tabloide que usa o nom de plume «La Retaquita».

Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidious regime; and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comedic semi-autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho.

He is also a widely read and respected essayist, writing everything from newspaper opinion pieces to critical works on other writers, including The Perpetual Orgy on Flaubert.

Vargas Llosa is also active outside the literary arena, and was a serious contender for the presidency of Peru in 1990 (eventually losing to the now disgraced Alberto Fujimori), an experience he documented in his memoir, A Fish in the Water.

On the controversial nature of some of his work he said, ??oeThe writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.”

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2010, "for his cartography of structures of power & his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

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