Praise for the stepmother

Mario Vargas Llosa is a world-famous Peruvian writer, one of the creators of the "boom" of Latin American prose, a Nobel Prize laureate, awarded to him in 2010 "for his depiction of the structure of power and vivid pictures of human resistance, rebellion and defeat." His first novel, "The City and the Dogs," received the most prestigious Spanish prize, the "Breve Library," and his second, "The Green House," the largest Romulo Gallegos prize in Latin America. In addition, Vargas Llosa is a laureate of the so-called "Spanish Nobel" - the Cervantes Prize, the international "Grinzane Cavour" prize, "PEN/Nabokov" and many others. The novel "Eulogy to the Stepmother," offered to the reader's attention, confused both readers and critics with its unexpectedly frank, spicy eroticism. Sophisticated writing, poetically and sensually glorifying and elevating intimate and even base moments, turns out to be more significant than the plot scheme. Therefore, the destroyed harmony of the "ideal" family is replenished by the highest harmony of the natural principle, and the defeat of the individual - by the triumph of the fusion of flesh and spirit.