His essays include criticisms of Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus and the 1971 work Garcia Marquez: Story of a God-Killer.  
His first novel was burned at the Leoncio Prado Military School, which served as its setting.  His essays include criticisms of Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus and the 1971 work Garcia Marquez: Story of a God-Killer.  The jungle of his native country is the setting of his novel The Green House, and an accidentally castrated adolescent is portrayed in his short story "The Cubs."  Other novels by this author include Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and Conversation in the Cathedral.  FTP, identify this author of The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru.
His first novel was burned at the Leoncio Prado Military School, which served as its setting.  
Mario Vargas Llosa