Los Cachorros

The young dogs (Spanish: Los cachorros ( pichula Cuéllar ) ) is a narrative of the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who was from 1965 to 1966 and 1967 appeared.

Action

The puppies are five schoolmates from Miraflores in Lima. One of them, the little Cuéllar, has an accident in the Colegio Champagnat after a football game. The Great Dane Judas enters the locker room at school and emasculated the boys through a bite between his legs. No doctor can help. The wealthy father turns to for years even to foreign specialists - without success.

After the accident Cuéllar is not a class Primus more, but both teachers, parents as well as his four school friends Lalo, Choto, Manuco and Chingolo are and remain lenient - worried. The friends give Cuéllar nicknamed tail. By the time he gets used to the names and faces even new students as a "tail Cuéllar " before.

After years as the four friends after another to conquer a girl, Cuéllar talking at once bad about the preppy girlfriends. Thus he retreats to the resentment of his classmates. The friends want to Cuéllar give a girlfriend. This is nothing. Cuéllars exaltations to take. He races his Ford convertible, a gift from the Father, like a madman through Lima. Shyness he goes the girls out of the way. He begins to stutter.

Everything turns out for the best, as the beautiful, blond Teresita Arrarte tolerates his advances. Cuéllar flirtatious Teresita declared itself not to the disappointment of four friends and their girlfriends.

The Ford models that drives Cuéllar, become more powerful over the years. Cuéllar are always eccentric and over -stressed. After Teresita has heard the young Cachito Arnilla, Cuéllars abound bad habits. He is now working in his father's company and stromert after work with shady characters around. For his 21st birthday gets Cuéllar from his father a strong motorized Nash paid.

The friends marry their girlfriends, diplomieren as engineers and Cuéllar sells during its time with 14 -year-old yobs. After a few bad car accident he dies " in the bad curves Pasamayo " at his last accident.

Form

The short text is presented transparent and easily manageable. To further disturb not the teasing games with syntactic structures. If Vargas Llosa, for example, writes: "But the weeks passed and when did we, tail, and it tomorrow", then remembers the readers of good will, where the quotation marks et cetera could be [A 1].

The narrator says "we". From the context it appears he can only come from the series of four classmates mentioned above.

Reception

• Oviedo cited Benedetti: 'll tell about the destruction of the protagonist. Cuéllar not die at the dog bite, but by the bites of the group. After Julio Ortega, the author wrote a story about a failed social integration. Cuéllar does not participate in the pleasures of his friends at school with the cultivated young girl part, but refused steadfastly. The fabric had Vargas Llosa from the newspaper. Oviedo expects the parents of the students described to the lower middle class in Lima.
• From a formal point of view the story estimates Scheerer high. The narrative time encompasses more than twenty years. The five boys were described as from the age of nine.

Filming

The film " Los cachorros " by Jorge Fons was premiered on 10 May 1973 in Mexico. José Alonso played the Cuéllar and Helena Rojo the Teresita Arrarte.