Maita story

The story Maitea Author Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Jumlasm Author Mario Vargas Llosa Publication Year 2018 Number of Pages 400 Maitea's story represents a new approach in Vargas Llosa's works, as we see the Peruvian novelist himself as a character participating in writing the novel we read and developing its course, so the novelist's character that gathers testimonies forms the structure of the novel, revealing to us in the end that the true events are completely different, and much poorer than fictional narration, thus confirming the saying that a novel can be richer and more convincing than history. In a country afflicted, subjected to foreign invasion, and deteriorating into miserable social and economic conditions, overshadowed by the darkness of the unknown, the novelist - through multiple testimonies - seeks to reconstruct the story of a revolutionary fighter named Alejandro Maitea, the hero of a frustrated revolutionary attempt in 1958, and imprisoned several times afterward under ambiguous circumstances. And at the end of that long investigation, the confrontation with reality comes to place this heroic story in its precise position. It is a bitter and tragicomic vision of cases of revolutionary extremism and nostalgia for epics.