A Fish in the Water

A Fish in the Water

"A Fish in the Water", originally published as "El pez en el agua" in 1993, is the memoir of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. It covers two main periods of his life: the first comprising the years between 1946 and 1958, describes his childhood and the beginning of his writing career in Europe. The second period covers his political involvement in later years culminating with his defeat against Alberto Fujimori in the presidential elections.

In an interview with Clifford Landers (Albuquerque, 5 November 1994), translator Helen Lane mentions that she originally translated the title as "A Fish in Water", without the article, and it was changed to "A Fish in the Water", thereby losing the parallelism with the English idiom, 'a fish out of water'."

External links

* [http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/28/specials/llosa-fish.html New York Times Review]
* [http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/vargas/pezagua.htm Complete Review]


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