This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered.
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Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth. Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa’s characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society. Mangaka serial cantik.
Who Killed Palomino Molero is a murder mystery who picks up a few characters and locations from The Green House and with an undercurrent of incest and class warfare in the Peru of the 50s. It is well-written, but short and somewhat predictable. Not my favorite Vargas Llosa but nonetheless an entertaining read. One thing I found particularly interesting was how somewhat similarly to the way that in the Andrea Camilleri series of Montalbano stories where often what looks like a mafia-related crime Who Killed Palomino Molero is a murder mystery who picks up a few characters and locations from The Green House and with an undercurrent of incest and class warfare in the Peru of the 50s. It is well-written, but short and somewhat predictable. Not my favorite Vargas Llosa but nonetheless an entertaining read.
One thing I found particularly interesting was how somewhat similarly to the way that in the Andrea Camilleri series of Montalbano stories where often what looks like a mafia-related crime is not, here we have what looks like a terrorist act, but may be something else entirely. If you are to read a book in one sitting (it being a scant but precious 151 pages total!) let it be this one.
This is MVL's (THE premiere author from Peru) take on the noir murder-mystery. Vargas Llosa is all too aware that for this genre to take on an actual literary dimension (QUICK! What are some murder mysteries which are true treasures of literature? 'In the Woods' by Tana French most recently, Thomas Harris's 'Silence of the Lambs'& 'Red Dragon'. Anything by Graham Greene I If you are to read a book in one sitting (it being a scant but precious 151 pages total!) let it be this one. This is MVL's (THE premiere author from Peru) take on the noir murder-mystery.
Vargas Llosa is all too aware that for this genre to take on an actual literary dimension (QUICK! What are some murder mysteries which are true treasures of literature? 'In the Woods' by Tana French most recently, Thomas Harris's 'Silence of the Lambs'& 'Red Dragon'. Anything by Graham Greene I am thinking 'Brighton Rock') it has to be bathed in pathos, it has to highlight all the right details in too short a time. Perhaps it has not as many zigzags as other tales of deception, but it is still somewhat unpredictable. Imagine my glee when I found out that this was a sort of prequel to 'Death in the Andes.'
Lituma, the titular character of 'Lituma en los andes' plays the Apprentice in this one. He finds himself stuck in a town with shady but colorful individuals all of them accomplices in on the Big Secret. As in 'Death in the Andes' he is enticed with the crime because his conscience is at the forefront and his heart is there for all to see.
Beautiful, beautiful prose. Despite misguided attempts at populism, something like MVL's who killed palomino molero? Definitely and defiantly outs me as the eastern-elitist snob i really am. Although i love a heavy dosage of pulp, it's gotta be literary, gotta carry a whiff of the highbrow. MVL - always a literary dude - gets a few things that a lot of lauded crime writers don't: 1. Plot's irrelevant. It's as big a macguffin as hitchcock's briefcase or wine bottle - now, this doesn't mean you don't need some kinda proper despite misguided attempts at populism, something like MVL's who killed palomino molero?
Definitely and defiantly outs me as the eastern-elitist snob i really am. Although i love a heavy dosage of pulp, it's gotta be literary, gotta carry a whiff of the highbrow. MVL - always a literary dude - gets a few things that a lot of lauded crime writers don't: 1.
Plot's irrelevant. It's as big a macguffin as hitchcock's briefcase or wine bottle - now, this doesn't mean you don't need some kinda proper story to act as a vehicle to propel your story. And you better structure that shit out perfectly and pace that bitch expertly and make it somewhat interesting and original (see: james ellroy).
But if ya get all enamored with a real intricate plot and think some good ideas'll carry your tale: you're wrong. As god(ard) cried down from the heavens: 'all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.' MVL's story is lean & simple and there ain't really any big twists, other than the ending which isn't really a plot twist but a kind of thematic twist. And this novel's got it all: the girl, the gun, interesting & mysterious characters, a fantastic sense of place, and some nice riffs on class & race & politics & authority (this is MVL, after all) 2. Character character character. Nobody gives a fuck about the most intricate or horrific crime if it's perpetrated on and/or by people we don't give a shit about.
We all get this. Amazing how often crime writers ignore it. The crime novel (or film) is an inherently existential venture, being, as it is, about death and subversion of norms. And a great crime novel is about everything. Well, everything important. This particular crime novel, aside from being about everything, is really about desire: about what drives people and how desire distorts said drive.
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A minor entry in a master's oeuvre, but who killed palomino molero? Is a great great read with a pretty nice punch for such a short novel. And this fucking website still doesn't allow 1/2 stars so i'm gonna downgrade to 3 rather than upgrade to 4 for a ridiculous reason: MVL just won the nobel prize so all kinda people (ranging from the genuinely curious to the i-wanna-sound-smart-at-parties) are gonna be rifling through the old peruvian bastard's underwear drawer.
If they happen upon my page, they're obviously gonna realize i am a man of impeccable taste, so'll take my opinions very seriously. And while i'd recommend palomino molero to just about anyone who digs books, if i had one book to really sell the old coot, it'd be one of the masterpieces ( war of the end of the world, or feast of the goat).
And get this: MVL teaches a fucking class at princeton on borges!!! For this booknerd, that's like injecting a viagra/cocaine cocktail directly into my penis and banging my way through the cast of this movie (with rosario dawson, marisa tomei, and carla gugino on deck) while morrissey performs a private concert.
for us: so i've enlisted a pal to shoot down to princetown with me and try and sit in on the lecture. Will gladly report back if head doesn't explode.who am i kidding? Morrissey couldn't possibly sing as his mouth'd be filled with my. Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidiou Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years.
His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidious regime; and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comedic semi-autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho. He is also a widely read and respected essayist, writing everything from newspaper opinion pieces to critical works on other writers, including The Perpetual Orgy on Flaubert. Vargas Llosa is also active outside the literary arena, and was a serious contender for the presidency of Peru in 1990 (eventually losing to the now disgraced Alberto Fujimori), an experience he documented in his memoir, A Fish in the Water.
Who Killed Palomino Molero
On the controversial nature of some of his work he said, “The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.” He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2010, 'for his cartography of structures of power & his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat'.
The classical English thriller concerns an aberrant action that shatters social order until the detective, an eccentric outsider or topsider on the order of Poirot, Wimsey or Campion, repairs the breach by solving the crime. American thrillers-newer English school of Le Carre and his colleagues-have gone further and further in making society itself the mystery; the perpetrator, even. It is the hard-boiled or freeze-dried maverick who patches things up, though they won't stay patched. Order is not restored; at most, there is a pause for breathing before the Establishment scoundrel will be at it again; and your tough paladin will be out on another job. 'Who Killed Palomino Molero?'
May, at first, seem a departure from Mario Vargas Llosa's big books on Latin America's lethal social vortices. It is a little book, and it is a detective story. Yet it's not mainly that.
Mainly, it carries the American and the neo-English traditions to a savage extreme. Its two detectives quickly discover the man responsible for the torture and brutal murder of a young airman near the Peruvian air base at Talara. The reader is perfectly aware of the perpetrator's identity almost from the start. The mystery is not there, but in the social context.
It's not important or surprising to learn that the commander of the base had his subordinate killed for making love to his daughter and trying to marry wed.?What is important is the morass in which the answer lodges. In a community without social structure, the different powers-military, economic, political-fight or compromise from the individual corners, usually surreptitiously but with an occasional public flare-up.
Society is simply the trackless no-mans-land between the contenders. It is into this no-mans-land that Lt. Silva of the National Police and his sidekick, Lituma, find themselves launched when the horribly mutilated corpse of a young man is found impaled in a carob tree near the Talara Air Force base. Silva, bitter but honest, and Lituma, credulous but observant, are entrusted with the theoretical duty of finding the murderer and bringing him to justice. The brief action takes place in the sunbaked torpor of a small seaside town near the base. In the foreground are the very modest lives and concerns of a few of the characters, which Vargas Llosa sets out in a vivid and expert shorthand. There is Lituma, the sparky one in his circle of young men who hang about, not doing very much, and who live for their evenings at the local bar and brothel.
'The Unstoppables,' they call themselves, in a grandiloquence traceable equally to small towns and worldwide television. Silva, who hasn't much to live for except his job and his obsession with the well-fleshed-and-aged endowments of Adriana, proprietor of the local restaurant. There is her husband, Matias, a gnarled fisherman whose frequent absences kindle Silva's fantasies though not, unfortunately for him, Adrian's passion.
It is a slow, poor and laconic existence; it is one part of the Third World. The air base is another part of that world; removed, arrogant and privileged by the money and arbitrary power that go to the armed forces in so much of Latin America. The townspeople think of the base, or at least of its officers, as another kind of American; their special enclaved life could be that of the American engineers at the oil refinery. Vargas Llosa's irony is agile and inspired.
Silva and Lituma represent the unprivileged civil authority of the National Police: Badly paid, demoralized and, by comparison with the military, an underclass. When they follow the trail of the dead airman to the base and its strutting and deadly commander, Col. Mindreau, they carry only the frailest thread of authority along with whatever individual bravery and persistence they can manage. They are two pygmies armed with spears against a pride of lions.
But the lions are sick. After an investigation marked by curt rebuffs, threats and a kind of dreamlike unreality, Silva and Lituma discover the colonel's vulnerability. It is his anorexic, self-willed and half-mad daughter, a kind of starveling Lolita. She tips them off to the details of her lover's brutal abduction. But there is more to it. Silva's hazily indirect questioning leads to a swamp. In their cut-off world, the colonel and his daughter had been living out a dark mixture of incestuous passion and the crazed machismo of power.
The crime is solved, but nothing else is. The two detectives have done their work, and punishment comes in a reasonably foreseeable fashion. But it is punishment only; not justice.
The solution has no standing, no meaning. Nobody believes it. Everyone in town knows far better than to accept Silva's and Lituma's account of a drama of twisted passion and authority. There has to be more to it. Clearly, there have been obscure high-level maneuverings, related to politics or perhaps drugs. Clearly, orders were given for the elimination of Col. Mindreau and his daughter; and for a cover-story.
If at the end, Lituma gets a transfer order to a remote mountain post, far from his cronies, and if Silva faces some equally disagreeable change, that only proves the point. Vargas Llosa may have invented the authentic Third World detective story. Facts need containers to hold them. In the author's Peru, there is nothing to hold the containers. There is no society; merely a system of private arrangements that, in a contemporary world of oil and foreign investments and military aid programs, have lost whatever traditional values they may once have had.
There is nowhere to put the truth.
This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate.
Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth. Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa's characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.
Author by: Mario Vargas Llosa Language: en Publisher by: Faber & Faber Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 33 Total Download: 938 File Size: 51,6 Mb Description: 'A comic novel on the grand scale written with tremendous confidence and verve. Mario, 18-year-old law student and radio news-editor, falls scandalously for his Aunt Julia, the 32-year-old divorced wife of a cousin, and the progressively lunatic story of this affair is interwoven with episodes from a series of radio soap-operas written by his friend Pedro Comacho.
Vargas Llosa's huge energy and inventiveness is extravagant and fabulously funny.' New Statesman.
Author by: Mario Vargas Llosa Language: en Publisher by: Faber & Faber Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 17 Total Download: 358 File Size: 42,8 Mb Description: Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece. Part-detective novel and part-political allegory, it offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society; not only of the current political violence and social upheaval, but also of the country's past, and its connection to Indian culture and to pre-Hispanic mysticism. As in his other novels, Vargas Llosa breathes into this work a magical assemblage of narrators, time frames and subplots.
We meet Senderista guerrillas, disenfranchised Indians, jaded army officers, eccentric townspeople and cult worshippers, among many unforgettable characters. The result is a work of broad sweep, powerful narrative drive, and keen insight into one of Latin America's most fascinating and complex countries. Author by: Mario Vargas Llosa Language: en Publisher by: Faber & Faber Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 36 Total Download: 385 File Size: 50,6 Mb Description: In Who Killed Palomino Molero? Mario Vargas LLosa has turned to detective fiction.
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The setting is Peru in the 1950s. Near an air force base in the northern deserts, a young airman is found brutally tortured and murdered. Two local policemen, Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma, set out to investigate. But they are not glamorous detectives with modern resources at their disposal; they don't even have a squad car and have to hitch rides on chiken trucks and cajole a local cabdriver to take them out to the scene of the crime. Not that anyone seems eager for Silva and Lituma to capture Palomino Molero's killer. But the two policemen persevere, and the slow and haphazard pace of the investigation only serves to intensify the high-pitched narrative tension, as the novel comes to haltingly rest on the very question with which it began.
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Who killed Palomino Molero? Is an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery. It is also serious fiction. Deftly, unobtrusively, the book takes up some of the great themes of all of Vargas Llosa's novels: guilt and innocence, the impossibility of justice in a society grounded in inequality and the eternally elusive nature of the truth. Author by: Mario Vargas Llosa Language: en Publisher by: Faber & Faber Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 12 Total Download: 404 File Size: 54,7 Mb Description: Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money.
The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. He becomes a reluctant public hero.
Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. And he finds that his troubles have begun very close to home. His fate is interwoven with the story of Rigoberto, a wealthy Lima insurance executive. His boss and old friend, Ismael, suddenly announces that he is marrying his housekeeper, a chola from Piura, to the consternation of his twin sons, a pair of brutal wasters. Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his fortune.
Rigoberto is hounded by the press and TV. Meanwhile, his only son is having visions of a mysterious stranger who may or may not be the devil. Author by: Frank Northen Magill Language: en Publisher by: Salem Pr Inc Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 67 Total Download: 278 File Size: 47,9 Mb Description: 'Entries ae arranged alphabetically by title, with the type of work, author, type and time of plot, locale, first publication date, and principal characters listed.
A plot synopsis is followed by a critical essay and a brief bibliography. Each entry is three to four pages in length. The four indexes included are by chronological date, by geogaphic locale, by title, and by author. The title 'Masterplots' does not convey the depth of information contained in the 12 volumes. The titles treated range chronologically from antiquity to the early 1990s, with the major emphasis on literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
While the majority of the entries are British, European, and United States fiction, the work also encompasses drama, works or collections of poetry, and nonfiction.' Am Ref Books Annu, 1997.