The is not a comfortable read. It is a punch to the gut. It is a novel that refuses to moralize while depicting profound immorality. It shows children acting like savage animals, and adults (the officers) acting like incompetent bureaucrats.
The most infamous episode occurred when a group of high-ranking generals purchased over a thousand copies of the first edition and publicly burned them in the courtyard of the real Leoncio Prado Military Academy. This act of censorship, intended to destroy the book, ironically made it a bestseller overnight. In the tradition of Fahrenheit 451 , the bonfire ensured the novel’s immortality.
"La Ciudad y los Perros" es una obra maestra de la literatura latinoamericana que sigue siendo relevante hoy en día. A través de su exploración de temas como la violencia, la masculinidad y la búsqueda de identidad, Vargas Llosa nos ofrece una visión profunda y compleja de la condición humana. La novela es un testimonio del poder de la literatura para iluminar y comprender el mundo que nos rodea. Si no has leído "La Ciudad y los Perros" todavía, te recomendamos que lo hagas. Es una experiencia que no te decepcionará.
Years later, Alberto—the former mouse—walked out of the academy’s iron gates for the last time. He was eighteen. He had a scar on his palm from the broken glass. He had learned to smoke, to curse, to never cry. He had learned that the city of dogs was not just the academy. It was Lima. It was the army. It was the whole country.
La historia sigue a un grupo de jóvenes cadetes que se encuentran en el colegio militar, luchando por sobrevivir en un entorno hostil y violento. A través de sus experiencias, la novela explora temas como la amistad, el amor, la traición y la búsqueda de identidad en un mundo dominado por la masculinidad y la jerarquía militar.