Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Permiso para vivir: antimemorias.
Lima: Peisa, 1994. Third edition. 460 pages.
Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6" x 8.25", and shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"In "Permiso para vivir" ("Permission to Live"), displaying that literary quality to which we are accustomed, Bryce Echenique offers us a reinvented image of his life, in which fascinating evocations and memories bustle that, brought together by the chance of memory, make up a warm portrait of the author, from a "lost" chapter of "Julius" to an extensive testimony about his Cuban experience, going through emotional episodes of friendship and love, and a thousand anecdotes about characters from literature, cinema, and politics that Bryce knew and knows, "Permiso para vivir" is an extraordinary set of personal testimonies and a bridge built for the affection of its readers."