Synopses & Reviews
Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardos life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring in the backdrop are Perus history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japans big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s. Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure... Which is the true face of love?
Synopsis
Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardos life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan.
Synopsis
Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor?
Esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa esta hecha para seducir.
Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueno que en su Lima natal alimento desde que tenia uso de razon: vivir en Paris. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiara todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmatica e inquieta, lo arrastrara fuera del pequeno mundo de sus ambiciones.
Testigos de epocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, Paris, Tokio o Madrid, que aqui son mucho mas que escenarios, ambos personajes veran sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hara crecer la intensidad del relato pagina a pagina hasta propiciar una verdadera fusion del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas.
Creando una admirable tension entre lo comico y lo tragico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega en Travesuras de la nina mala (2006) con la realidad y la ficcion para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueno de mil caras, como la nina mala. Pasion y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... Cual es el verdadero rostro del amor?
La critica ha dicho:
Una novela de amor de hoy, de erotismo, con encuentros, separaciones, sufrimientos, enganos, entrega, y tambien mucha verdad, y en la que Vargas Llosa, a modo de entomologo, analiza minuciosamente la condicion humana, como su gran admirado Flaubert en La educacion sentimental, obra que se cita en la novela, entre otras muchas referencias literarias a las que alude el autor. Y es que la idea de novela para Vargas Llosa es #la experiencia totalizadora de la condicion humana#. El Pais
La nina mala recuerda a los amorosos de Sabines: buscan la felicidad sin nunca encontrarla, pues encontrarla equivaldria a perderla sin remedio. Muy recomendable esta novela, en apariencia modesta, pero que en realidad rasca con sana exquisita en nuestros mas intimos deseos y frustraciones domesticas. Javier Munguia, Revista de Letras
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate love that occupies more than three decades of Ricardo's life, and it is also a fascinating tale traveling through Europe, South America, and Japan. Starring in the backdrop are Peru's history from 1950 to 1987 and its swinging from democracy to dictatorship; Paris in the sixties and its great philosophers Sartre and Camus; the decade of the 70s in London, the birth of a new culture, drugs, music, hippies, freedom of love; Japan's big dealer lords, and, finally, Spain halfway through the 80s. Creating an admirable tension between comedy and tragedy, Mario Vargas Llosa plays with reality and fiction to release a story in which love presents itself as indefinable, owner of a thousand faces, just like the mischievous girl. Passion and distance, chance and destiny, pain and pleasure... Which is the true face of love?