"Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome." Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius' father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius' expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima.This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. A member of that elite, Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family who become nouveaux riches with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. A World for Julius, his first novel, marks the first appearance in English of this important Peruvian writer, whose Latin American postmodern fiction has won critical acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

A World for Julius: A Novel (Texas Pan American Series)

Bryce-Echenique, Alfredo

Literature & Fiction

Univ of Texas Pr

"Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome." Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius's expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. A member of that elite, Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential , centuries-old aristocratic family who becomes nouveaux riches with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. A World for Julius, his first novel, marks the first appearance in English of this important Peruvian writer, whose Latin American postmodern fiction has won critical acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

A World for Julius: A Novel (Texan Pan American Series)

University of Texas Press

Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather’s ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius’s father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children’s lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius’s expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. In this postmodern novel Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. Winner of the Outstanding Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association and the Columbia University Translation Center Award.

A World for Julius: A Novel (THE AMERICAS)

Literary

University of Wisconsin Press

From the internationally acclaimed Peruvian writer—winner of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world—a tragicomic story of improbable, inevitable love. At the center: a couple in love, in exile together and apart. He is Juan Manuel Carpio, a second-generation Peruvian of Native American origins, a middle-class singer-composer. She is Fernanda María de la Trinidad del Monte Montes, a polyglot and cultured Salvadoran. Through the mostly epistolary narrative set in 1960s Paris, revolutionary El Salvador, Chile, 1980s California, and London, we follow the thirty-year arc of their relationship. At once cheerful, hopeful, and informed by a serene lack of sentimentality, the narrative—rich with the delights of paradox and hyperbole—sees the couple through disastrous and traumatic marriages to other people; the ups and downs of their respective careers; the inexorable effects of politics on their personal lives; their shifting passions and gradual realization that the truest bond between lovers is a tender, abiding, and respectful friendship.

Tarzan's Tonsillitis: A Novel

Contemporary

Pantheon

Un monde pour Julius

Genre Fiction

METAILIE

Une lettre à Martín Romaña et autres nouvelles

CLIMATS

Eine Welt für Julius.

Suhrkamp

Suhrkamp Verlag KG

Elegida la mejor novela peruana de todos los tiempos. Esta es la historia de los primeros once años de Julius, pero, sobre todo, es la recreación de esa vida desde la mirada del protagonista, un niño que observa con inocencia, a veces incrédulo, a ratos crítico, un orden social donde señores y sirvientes, padres e hijos, alumnos y profesores, se relacionan sin llegar jamás a conocerse, y aunque se necesitan, prefieren ignorarse mutuamente. Así, en el mundo de Julius, preso de incomunicación, hay muchos mundos. Y sus experiencias, pero sobre todo sus reflexiones, habrán de encaminarlo hacia uno de ellos, o quizás hacia otro más suyo, que los integre todos. Puede decirse que el estilo oral e íntimo de Alfredo Bryce Echenique nació en Un mundo para Julius y que hoy, cuarenta años después, continúa vigente, mantiene sus virtudes intactas, desde su ternura triste y melancólica, hasta su sentido del humor y su ironía. Esa es solo una de las razones por las que, aunque ambientada en la Lima de mediados del siglo XX, esta novela sigue hablándonos del Perú, del mundo de hoy. Esta edición conmemorativa incluye estudios de Julio Ortega, César Ferreira y Jorge Eslava. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this lyrical, richly textured novel, Julius, an eleven year old boy born to the social elite in Peru, tells us the story of his life. Through keen observations, by turns skeptical and cynical, Julius paints a world where servants and their masters, fathers and sons, teachers and students interact without ever truly knowing each other. This postmodern novel incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s.

UN MUNDO PARA JULIUS - 40ANOS EDICION CONMEMORATIVA (Coleccion Editorial 40 Anos) (Spanish Edition)

United States

Alfaguara

Barcelona. 1986. Plaza y Janés. 21x15. 188p.

Magdalena peruana y otros cuentos (Plaza & Janés/literaria) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Plaza Janes

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