The mischievous girl’s wickedness

The Mischiefs of the Naughty Girl Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher: Jamal Publications Book Title: The Mischiefs of the Naughty Girl Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Translator: Saleh Almanan Publication Year: 2021 Number of Pages: 392 "Jamal Publications" announced the imminent release of a second edition of the novel "The Mischiefs of the Naughty Girl" by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, the owner of political epics, who combines in his novels worlds that are often conflicting: sex, adventures, fantasy, visual art, conspiracies, revolutions... in a narrative mix full of suspense and surprises. The novel, translated into Arabic by the late Saleh Almanan, revolves around the good boy and the naughty girl. The good boy is Ricardo, who works as a translator at the United Nations, and the naughty girl has countless names, matching her many personalities. Ricardo met the naughty girl in Lima, but she disappeared completely after a short time, only to reappear ten years later in Paris, where she became involved in politics. Their meetings recur due to the work of the good boy, who travels frequently, and they meet in various countries: France, Spain, and Britain. The lives of the two characters span from adolescence to old age, accompanying each other on a forty-year journey, during which fate insists on bringing them together again, each time in a different place, maintaining an extraordinary relationship that combines love and madness of desires. Behind this relationship, and through the details of their madness, all the events of the twentieth century pass in the background. The Iraqi novelist the late Saad Mahmoud Raheem wrote: "It is a novel about love first and foremost. The fierce, overwhelming, blind love that dominates the heart and mind, feeling and subconscious, for forty years, like a dormant germ in the blood and marrow, like a curse... Love for one woman alone, as in Florentino Ariza's case in Gabriel García Márquez's novel 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' who will wait half a century for his beloved, who has abandoned him and married a doctor. He waits all this time to renew his vow of loyalty and love... when? When he reaches seventy-five. He spends these years with hundreds of women, with his eyes fixed on Fermina Daza, whom he hopes her husband will die, so he can repeat the cycle and declare his old love." It is worth noting that Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, and is considered one of the greatest Latin American writers. He has numerous works, including "The Time of the Hero," "The Way to Paradise," and "The End of the World War."