Peruvian modernist writer
Martín Adán (1908-1985), a legendary, reclusive presence in Peruvian literature, published seven volumes of poetry and twice won the National Prize for Poetry. The Cardboard House is his only work of fiction.
The Cardboard House
“This book is profoundly realist, but it is not a reproduction of exterior reality; it is rather the poetic, sensorial, intuitive, non-rational testimony of this reality.”
— Mario Vargas Llosa on Martín Adán's The Cardboard House
“Wonderfully youthful, poetically miraculous, The Cardboard House is the most representative — and the best — of the Latin American avant-garde of the 1920s.”
— César Aira on Martín Adán's The Cardboard House
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