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    "A Study Guide for Juan Gabriel V?squez's ""Reputations"""
    "A Study Guide for Juan Gabriel V?squez's ""Reputations"""
    "A Study Guide for Juan Gabriel V?squez's ""Reputations"""
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    "A Study Guide for Juan Gabriel V?squez's ""Reputations"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateDec 13, 2018
    ISBN9780028665948
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      "A Study Guide for Juan Gabriel V?squez's ""Reputations""" - Gale

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      A Study Guide for Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Reputations

      Juan Gabriel Vásquez

      2013

      Introduction

      In Juan Gabriel Vásquez's novel Reputations, first published in Spanish in 2013 and translated into English by Anne McLean in 2016, a famous Colombian political cartoonist faces a moral crisis. Decades earlier, Javier Mallarino destroyed a congressman's career with a single cartoon after he was caught molesting a young girl, leading to his suicide. When the congressman's victim seeks out Mallarino as an adult and admits she has no memory of the incident, the cartoonist begins to spiral into self-doubt. If Mallarino was wrong about the congressman, his national fame as the conscience of Colombia is not deserved. Vásquez writes with elegant realism, depicting the intersection between his home country's political complexities and the paradox of memory. Breaking the mold of Colombian magical realist literature, Vásquez depicts Bogotá's politics, pollution, cafés, and corruption, trading in the fantastical for earnest moral debate.

      Author Biography

      Vásquez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1973. His father was a lawyer, from whom Vásquez inherited a love of European and American literature. He attended Anglo-Colombian school in Bogotá, before enrolling in Bogotá University, where he earned a law degree. In 1996, he moved to Europe at the age of twenty-three, where he lived in France, Belgium, and Spain. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. He cites European and American authors as his strongest influences and inspiration to break from the tradition of magical realism in Colombia made famous by Gabriel García Márquez. In particular, he was influenced by the works of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce. In 1999 he was married and soon after was falsely diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Though he eventually recovered from what turned out to be tuberculosis, the experience was traumatizing.

      Media Adaptations

      Reputations is available as an audiobook, narrated by Robert Fass and published by Penguin Audio in 2016. Its running time is four hours and fifty-eight minutes.

      The Informers was published in 2004 and translated into twelve languages. As a result of its success, Vásquez was named one of the Bogotá39—a group of Latin America's best writers under the age of forty—in 2007. Also that year he published The Secret History of Costaguana and began writing a weekly column for El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper. The Sound of Things Falling was published in 2011 and was widely praised by critics, receiving the Alfaguara Prize. After sixteen years abroad, Vásquez returned to Bogotá with

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