Abstract

The study was conducted with the purpose of deeply understanding the novel Conversation in the Cathedral of Peruvian of Mario Vargas Llosa which was translated into Vietnamese by Pham Van in 2011. Written in the late 1960s, although Conversation in the Cathedral of Peruvian was not his latest novel, it is still recognized as his most monumental work marking his ability to genuinely reflect and recreate the whole social aspects of Peru’s times. The most noticeable characteristics of the novel was choosen to study: building of broad and multi-faceted reality, discovering reality in different dimensions and reference systems The paper also shows Mario Vargas Llosa’s examination and judgement, acuity of his explanation of personal destiny and fate of the people under changing dictatorship. With massive capacity of 640 pages, Conversation in the Cathedral vividly expressed sprawling realistic mass in confusion and disorder of a poor third-world country in post-colonial period. Apart from exploring life, multi-dimentional reality in the work is researched on through innovative aspects of art of novel: unprecedented way of writing, application of dialogue model, use of multi-layered and bi-layered structures of narrative language and personnal pronouns. Through Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa has proved himself as a writer of high calibre, with keen knowledge of social life, and with a strong desire to discover reality of his self right from the inside.