García Márquez

This essay, which was originally the thesis that earned Vargas Llosa a doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1971, shows the early admiration that the Peruvian Nobel laureate felt for García Márquez and for his masterful novel One Hundred Years of Solitude . Both would be, in the following decades, spearheads of the renewal of Latin American literature. Today, fifty years after its first publication, this work returns to bookstores with the same validity as when it was first published and offers readers an exciting opportunity to enjoy the critical lucidity of Vargas Llosa by reading a contemporary his, as well as to enter his hand in the biography and the most emblematic work of the Colombian Nobel.