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Title: UN Mundo Para Julius = A World for Julius by Bryce Echenique, A. Echenique ISBN: 8-4014126-1-7 Publisher: Aims Intl Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: The way our world really was...
Comment: I originally wrote this about the original edition, now out-of-print.

Bryce-Echenique's semi-autobiograhy is a wonderful reminisence of growing up in the wealthy suburbs of Lima, Peru, during the 50s and 60s. The book reminded me of my childhood in San Isidro and Miraflores. He writes very personally and vividly, painting all the cultural blessings and curses of Peruvian high society with impressionistic softness, but, with that beauty and grace of how life used to be, he paints a sometimes dark and painful picture.

One piece of advice: to fully enjoy the book one should read it in Spanish -- as much of the impact of the book comes from its informal, evocative, and hilarious use of local colloquialisms.

Rating: 5
Summary: Extraordinario
Comment: Un Mundo Para Julius es probablemente la mejor novela de la literatura peruana y una de las mejores de la literatura latinoamericana.

Bryce no solo logra desarrollar una critica aguda pero sutil de la oligarquia peruana, sino que desarrolla una historia sencillamente extraordinaria acerca de la perdida de la inocencia.

El retrato de la tristeza que rodea y de alguna manera define la vida de Julius es conmovedor pero contenido y no desborda en tonos melodramaticos como tantas otras novelas latinoamericanas.

Mas alla de ello, creo que el estilo narrativo de esta novela, llega a cotas muy dificiles de alcanzar. Por momentos, nos embulle en el proceso mental desordenado e incoherente de una persona dejando una sensacion extrana.

Para los cineastas; creo que este libro constituye un extraordinario material para adaptar.

Rating: 4
Summary: No le busquen cinco pies al gato
Comment: This is Spanish for "the cat has four limbs and only four" meaning...don`t look for more!

I was moved to write this critique after reading the comments of another reviewer...he founds the novel enjoyable but he complaints that the author "digresses from what is happening"..."not adding to the message of the novel".

I just have to say that the beauty of this novel is that the author is SO refined at casually "touching" the message that the novel comes trough as natural and very witty.

Bryce Echenique has ridiculized novels having a "social purpose"...a "message purpose" frequently...(just read "La vida exagerada de Martin Roma~na for example).

This novel is great because it was written for the sole pleasure of writing.

It has some message, it is intentional, but is not "intended"...and only a satirical person like Bryce can succeed at this.