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El Paraiso En La Otra Esquina/the Way to Paradise
by Mario Vargas Llosa

Published: 2005-05-30
Mass Market Paperback : 592 pages
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A century passed between the birth of Flora Trist�n and the death of her grandson, the great painter Paul Gauguin. They never met, but both dreamed, each in their own way, with a better world. With this novel we get to know these two great personalities that had similar characteristics: ...
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(A century passed between the birth of Flora Trist�n and the death of her grandson, the great painter Paul Gauguin. They never met, but both dreamed, each in their own way, with a better world. With this novel we get to know these two great personalities that had similar characteristics: an impressive stubbornness and a bulletproof determination and motivation.

Description in Spanish: Dos vidas: la de Flora Trist�n, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasi�n por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahit� en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones. Dos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que s�lo ve en �l un instrumento de dominio masculino y la de Gauguin, que lo considera una fuerza vital imprescindible puesta al servicio de su creatividad. �Qu� tienen en com�n esas dos vidas? Esto es lo que Vargas Llosa pone de relieve en esta novela: el mundo de utop�as que fue el siglo XIX. Un nexo de uni�n entre dos personajes opuestos que desvelan un deseo com�n: el de alcanzar un para�so donde sea posible la felicidad para los seres humanos.

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  "Story of Two Characters living in different times"by Tory T. (see profile) 01/29/08

Objective was good. Poorly Written.

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