The War of the End of the World - Final Thoughts

Who feels like opening the discussion?
From what we have commented on previous posts (and from some emails that have been exchanged), we can extract that there are a lot of mixed feelings about the story, the characters, and about the book itself.

The War of the End of the World - Part Three: Real Revolutions?

So how are you doing so far? We are a little behind schedule, but that won't stop us! We wanted to highlight the parallelism of the (fiction) revolution in Canudos and the real ones starting in the Middle East, what do you think? Are idealists like Galileo Gall appearing in Egypt? Morocco? Libya? Are the causes the same, hunger, poverty, inequality? What's the role of religion? In both our book and our newspapers we are seeing the armies against the people, does the book make you more interested in these developments? Or do you think they don't have common elements? Please, let us know your views!!

The War of the End of the World - Part Two

The second part of the book is a short one, and quite hilarious. It seems to be an answer (or a reinforcement) to Arantxa’s comment about manipulation of the media: “The corruption of politicians and power seems to be the same one a century after the war of the end of the world”.

What about the type of journalism? How much does the article look like nowadays journalism? And the journalist himself?

The War of the End of the World - Part One

In the first part of the book we get to know the story -- or at least part of it -- of some of the main characters; including a few local politicians, The Counselor’s followers, and Galileo Gall. However, after reading one fourth of the book, we really know nothing about The Counselor. What is his personal story? His background? His purpose?

In the two moments the book changes from having an omnipresent narrator to have Galileo Gall as the personal narrator, his thoughts bring up interesting points. Who are The Counselor’s followers? Are they part of a strategy of The Counselor to rebel against the pillars of a classist society? Is religion the only force able to strike a group of people for centuries yield to the oppression of a tyrannical church and abusive government?

The War of the End of the World

Thanks for your feedback about the reading and discussion pace of The Help!
Info about the guiding pace for reading and discussing The War of the End of the World at the "Book Discussion Schedule" page of this blog.

And the Winner is...

… The War of the End of the World, by Mario Vargas Llosa

Thanks everybody for your votes.

Info about the reading and discussing schedule coming soon.

In the meanwhile, time to go to your library, bookshop, superstore, amazon… 

or wherever you like to get your books, and find this one!