Nobel prize for literature winner's life should not eclipse his work | Books | guardian.co.uk
His novels, from the most excoriating works on dictatorship to the headiest postmodern romantic fictions, have drawn heavily on his own life. The Green House (1966) was set in a jungle brothel in a society governed by machismo and sexual control, and where, Vargas Llosa discovered as a cadet, the whorehouse was a "central institution in Latin American life", while Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) was informed by a teenage stint as a night-owl crime reporter in the Lima underworld. His comic masterpiece Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) alternated the tales of a Bolivian writer of radio soap operas with the tempestuous melodrama of his own eight-year marriage to his aunt, with whom he eloped when he was 19 and she 32.
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