 In fact, his thesis was on Gabriel García Márquez.He shot to fame with his novel "The Time of the Hero" (1963), a scathing indictment of cruelty and corruption in a Peruvian military academy (and, by implication, in Peruvian society).Vargas Llosa also wrote "The Green House" (1966), the epic Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973), and post-Boom novels such as Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977).