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A review by blueyorkie
Pantaleão e as visitadoras by Mario Vargas Llosa
4.0
Mission, oh so delicate and secret, because army and pimping do not even mix well. That is given to us by Captain Pantaléon Pantoja, chosen for his undeniable organizational skills, rigor, and blind obedience to his superiors. Embarrassed by the content of this mission, Pantaléon will put all its "professional conscience" at the Service of its success. He endeavored to recruit the most efficient visitors to meet the needs of his mates and profitably cost while maintaining optimal health and safety conditions and preserving an atmosphere of Service as military as possible.
A parody situation is more accentuated by the fact that our Pantaléon is a virtuous man who discovers a universe far from his and must hide his activities from his wife and mother. Despite a business plan to make a consultant fade with envy, the excellent wheels of the SVGPFA will somewhat have to seize by disruptive elements that the military logic of our fearless captain did not allow him to anticipate.
Suffice it to say that we are not bored in this novel and laugh a lot.
Vargas Llosa offers us a jubilant satire on military and religious fanaticism, also original in its form.
The author alternates different narrative forms, which energize the narrative, surprise, and contribute to its humor. Letters, radio broadcasting, and embedded dialogues indicate the speaker's actions and relations with soldiers about the Service of the visitors, where the antagonism between the form and the subject is hilarious.
A parody situation is more accentuated by the fact that our Pantaléon is a virtuous man who discovers a universe far from his and must hide his activities from his wife and mother. Despite a business plan to make a consultant fade with envy, the excellent wheels of the SVGPFA will somewhat have to seize by disruptive elements that the military logic of our fearless captain did not allow him to anticipate.
Suffice it to say that we are not bored in this novel and laugh a lot.
Vargas Llosa offers us a jubilant satire on military and religious fanaticism, also original in its form.
The author alternates different narrative forms, which energize the narrative, surprise, and contribute to its humor. Letters, radio broadcasting, and embedded dialogues indicate the speaker's actions and relations with soldiers about the Service of the visitors, where the antagonism between the form and the subject is hilarious.