Sociohistorical and literal determination of The city and dogs (1963) by Mario Vargas Llosa

Abstract

In the first place, a brief description of the historical and political context of this novel will be made; for this, some dimensions will be taken into account that allude to the situation, not only national, but worldwide. As a second section, the political and philosophical ideologies that are presented in that same context will be sustained. The third topic argues a summary information based on the Latin American boom (definition, techniques and representatives), together with a mention related to the contributions that Vargas Llosa would be offering to Literature. The fourth topic involves the presentation of The city and dogs (1963), which will be proposed in that section with only a general and synthetic overview of its content. The fifth covers the critical reception of this work; that is to say, the hermeneutics or the studies carried out around this novel, in which the recurrent themes are distinguished. These first five topics would serve to form a panoramic frame on the author and the study that literary criticism has done based on the analyzed novel.