A World for Julius: A NovelUniversity of Texas Press, 1992 - 430 pagina's Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius's expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. A member of that elite, Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family who becomes nouveaux riches with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. A World for Julius, his first novel, marks the first appearance in English of this important Peruvian writer, whose Latin American postmodern fiction has won critical acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world. |
Inhoudsopgave
THE SCHOOL YEARS | 87 |
THE COUNTRY CLUB | 175 |
THE BIG GUYS | 257 |
Copyright | |
1 andere gedeelten niet getoond
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
afternoon already Ancón anymore architect Arminda arrived asked began Bobby bullfighting Cano Carlos Celso and Daniel Chola Chosica cigarette Cinthia Club darling door drink everything eyes face feeling felt Fernandito finished Frau Proserpina friends front girl glass going golf good-bye gringo hair hand happy Juan Lastarria Julius Jungle Woman kiss knew laughing leave Lester Lima looked Luis Martín mansion Martinto Mercedes Miss Decisive Mommy morning Mother Superior never night Nilda patio Peru Peter the painter piano piggy bank Pisco sours play pool poor remembered Sánchez Concha Santiago Santiaguito screaming Señora shirt smiled someone started station wagon stood stop Susan Swede talk tell things thought told Tonelada took turned Villa María Vilma waiting walked wanted watched whiskey window woman yelled young