“We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.”
The Time of the Hero (1963)
Quotes from book
The Time of the Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa
Original title
La ciudad y los perros
(Spanish, 1963)
The Time of the Hero is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in 2010. It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, which he attended as a teenager. The novel portrays the school so scathingly that its leadership burned a large number of copies and condemned the book as Ecuadorian propaganda against Peru.It is notable for its experimental and complex employment of multiple perspectives in a non-linear fashion.
“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”
The Time of the Hero (1963)
“A clean conscience might help you to get into heaven. but it won't help your career.”
The Time of the Hero (1963)
“He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.”
The Time of the Hero (1963)
