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The Green House (La casa verde) is a 1966 novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The green house of the title is a bar and bordello at the edge of the Peruvian city of Piura. The green also represents the Amazonian jungle, where the narrative is partly set.
The novel is considered a central work for the new Spanish American novel style that arose in the 1960s, and has been much commented on by literary scholars. It features a convoluted, puzzle-like narrative style that is reminiscent of William Faulkner and Franz Kafka. Vargas Llosa presents several narrative lines, and moves back and forth between them by means of a difficult and non-chronological narrative logic. The reader must piece together these lines in order to construct the story. The novel finally serves as a critique of Peruvian society.
| The Work of Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Novels The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversation in the Cathedral, Captain Pandoja and the Special Service, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of The End of the World, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, The Storyteller, In Praise of The Stepmother, Death in the Andes, The Feast of The Goat, The Way to Paradise, Mischiefs of the Bad Girl |
| Short Stories: The Cubs and other Stories, Notebooks of Don Rigoberto |
| Non-Fiction Carta de batalla por Tirant Lo Blanc, García Márquez: Story of a deicide, The Perpetual Orgy, A Fish in the Water, Making Waves, The Language of Passion, Letters to a Young Novelist, A Writer's reality, La tentación de lo imposible |
