The Temptation of the Impossible

The Temptation of the Impossible (Spanish: La tentación de lo imposible, 2004) is a book-length essay by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

An English translation was published in 2007.

Reviews

Robb, Graham (June 28, 2007). "In his nightmare city". The New York Review of Books. 54 (11): 52–54.

Vargas Llosa, Mario. The temptation of the impossible : Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. Translated from the Spanish by John King.

v t e Works by Mario Vargas Llosa
Novels	The Time of the Hero (1963) The Green House (1966) Conversation in The Cathedral (1969) Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) The War of the End of the World (1981) The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986) The Storyteller (1987) In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) Death in the Andes (1993) The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) The Feast of the Goat (2000) The Way to Paradise (2003) The Bad Girl (2006) The Dream of the Celt (2010) The Discreet Hero (2013) The Neighborhood (2016) Harsh Times (2019)
Short story collection	The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)
Essays	The Basis for Interpretation of Rubén Darío (1958) The Perpetual Orgy (1975) The Temptation of the Impossible (2004)
Essay collections	A Writer's Reality (1991) A Fish in the Water (1993) The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works (1995) Making Waves (1997) Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) The Language of Passion (2001)
Adaptations	Tune in Tomorrow (film; 1990) The Feast of the Goat (film; 2005)
Films written	Tattoos in Memory (2024)

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