The Temptation of the Impossible

First edition (Spanish)

The Temptation of the Impossible (Spanish: La tentación de lo imposible, 2004) is a book-length essay by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

An English translation was published in 2007 and is reviewed in Graham Robb, "In His Nightmare City" The New York Review of Books 54/11 (28 June 2007) : 52-54.

Works by Mario Vargas Llosa

Novels	The Time of the Hero (1963) The Green House (1966) Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) The War of the End of the World (1981) The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986) The Storyteller (1987) In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) Death in the Andes (1993) The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) The Feast of the Goat (2000) The Way to Paradise (2003) The Bad Girl (2006) The Dream of the Celt (2010)

Short story collection	The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)

Essays	The Basis for Interpretation of Rubén Darío (1958) The Perpetual Orgy (1975) The Temptation of the Impossible (2004)

Essay collections	A Writer's Reality (1991) A Fish in the Water (1993) Making Waves (1997) Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) The Language of Passion (2001)