Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Mario Vargas Llosa's comic novel about an army captain's efficient scheme to supply prostitutes to troops in the Peruvian jungle.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (Pantaleón y las visitadoras, 1973) is a short comic novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, set in the department of Amazonas, where Captain Pantoja runs an astonishingly efficient campaign to provide prostitution services to soldiers. Yan Lianke says in The Week that its rhythmic narration creates the ironic, satirical tone. Gregory Kolovakos and Ronald Christ translated it, and Noonday Press published this 260-page edition in 1990.
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Yan Lianke
Its rhythmic narration creates the work's ironic, satirical tone.
Article · November 2016
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