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« Que de tours et de malices chez cette "vilaine fille", toujours et tant aimée par son ami Ricardo, le "bon garçon". Ils se rencontrent pour la première fois au début des années cinquante en pleine adolescence, dans l'un des quartiers les plus huppés de Lima, Miraflores. Joyeux, inconscients, ils font partie d'une jeunesse dorée qui se passionne pour les rythmes du mambo et ne connaît d'autre souci que les chagrins d'amour. Rien ne laissait alors deviner que celle qu'on appelait à Miraflores "la petite Chilienne" allait devenir, quelques années plus tard, une farouche guérillera dans la Cuba de Castro, puis l'épouse d'un diplomate dans le Paris des existentialistes, ou encore une richissime aristocrate dans le "swinging London". D'une époque, d'un pays à l'autre, Ricardo la suit et la poursuit, comme le plus obscur objet de son désir. Et, bien entendu, ne la perd que pour mieux la rechercher. Mario Vargas Llosa nous offre un cadeau inattendu : une superbe tragi-comédie où éros et thanatos finissent par dessiner une autre Carte de Tendre entre Lima, Paris, Londres et Madrid. Car "Tours et détours de la vilaine fille" est bien cela : la géographie moderne d'un amour fou. »

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa (all their books in stock)
Format: Pocket Book
Published: 2008
Pages: 417
Publisher: Gallimard
ISBN: 9782070351404

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