El Paraíso en la otra esquina by Mario Vargas Llosa

In 1891, her grandson Paul Gauguin set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilization and paint primitive masterpieces. In 1844, Flora Tristan embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. Un nexo de unión entre dos personajes que optan por dos modelos vitales opuestos que desvelan un deseo común: el de alcanzar un paraíso donde sea posible la felicidad para los seres humanos. ¿Qué tienen en común esas dos vidas desligadas y opuestas, aparte del vínculo familiar por ser Flora la abuela materna de Gauguin? Esto es lo que Vargas Llosa pone de relieve en esta novela: el mundo de utopías que fue el siglo XIX. It has also been translated into German by Elke Wehr as Das Paradies ist anderswo.❽ónde se encuentra el Paraíso? ❾n la construcción de una sociedad igualitaria o en la vuelta al mundo primitivo?ĭos vidas: la de Flora Tristán, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasión por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahití en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones.ĭos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que sólo ve en él un instrumento de dominio masculino y la de Gauguin, que lo considera una fuerza vital imprescindible puesta al servicio de su creatividad. The French translation by Albert Bensoussan is called Le Paradis, un peu plus loin. The English translation by Natasha Wimmer was published by Faber and Faber, UK in 2004. The contrast and similarities between two lives attempting to break free from the suffocating norms of the society, present a long but elegant read. In the process he distances himself more and more from civilization, turning to Tahiti and French Polynesia for inspiration. Gauguin abandons his wife and children, and job as a stock-broker in Copenhagen, to chase his passion of painting.

The life of Paul Gauguin also unfolds along a similar quest for ideal life. She thus abandons her personal life and family for her cause. Flora Tristan, illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Peruvian man and a French woman, is repelled by sex, detests her husband André Chazal, and abandons him to fight for woman's and worker rights. The book is divided into 11 chapters, each alternating between stories of Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the grandson she never knew. The novel is a historical, double biography of the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, one of the founders of modern feminism. The Way to Paradise (Spanish: El paraíso en la otra esquina) is a novel written by Mario Vargas Llosa in 2003. Mario Vargas Llosa IBNA: The historical novel is converted into Persian by Hamid Reza Yazdanpanah.

El Paraíso en la otra esquina by Mario Vargas Llosa