La ciudad y los perros

On 1962, The City and the Dogs received the Brief Library Prize and a few months later it was published after circumventing Franco's censorship. Thus began the literary journey of this work with which Mario Vargas Llosa achieved international recognition and which today is considered one of the best novels in Spanish of the 20th century. Translated into thirty languages, it is set in the Leoncio Prado Military College. The protagonists, a group of young people who are "educated" in a relentless and violent military discipline, learn to survive in an environment where racial prejudices and differences between social and economic classes are deeply rooted; where everyone shows themselves as they really are not and the transgression of the established norms seems to be the only way out. The city and the dogs is not only a tirade against brutality, but also a frontal attack on the erroneous concept of manhood and a poorly understood military education. Throughout the pages of this extraordinary novel, the vehemence and passion of youth run wild until they reach a fury, rage and fanaticism that nullify all sensitivity