Que de tours et de malices chez cette �vilaine fille�, toujours et tant aim�e par son ami Ricardo, le �bon gar�on�. Ils se rencontrent pour la premi�re fois au d�but des ann�es cinquante, en pleine adolescence, dans l'un des quartiers les plus hupp�s de Lima, Miraflores. Joyeux, inconscients, ils font partie d'une jeunesse dor�e qui se passionne pour les rythmes du mambo et ne conna�t d'autre souci que les chagrins d'amour. Rien ne laissait alors deviner que celle qu'on appelait � Miraflores �la petite Chilienne� allait devenir, quelques ann�es plus tard, une farouche gu�rillera dans la Cuba de Castro, puis l'�pouse d'un diplomate dans le Paris des existentialistes, ou encore une richissime aristocrate dans le swinging London. D'une �poque, d'un pays � l'autre, Ricardo la suit et la poursuit, comme le plus obscur objet de son d�sir. Et chaque fois, il ne la retrouve que pour la perdre. Et, bien entendu, ne la perd que pour mieux la rechercher. Il n'est jamais facile d'�crire l'histoire d'une obsession. Mais la difficult� est encore plus grande quand il s'agit d'une obsession amoureuse et quand l'histoire que l'on raconte est celle d'une passion. Mario Vargas Llosa avait d�j� affront� ce d�fi par le pass� dans La tante Julia et le scribouillard (1980), l'un de ses romans les plus populaires. Et voici qu'il le rel�ve encore vingt-cinq ans plus tard et nous offre ce cadeau inattendu : une superbe tragi-com�die o� �ros et thanatos finissent par dessiner une autre Carte de Tendre entre Lima, Paris, Londres et Madrid. Car Tours et d�tours de la vilaine fille est bien cela : la g�ographie moderne d'un amour fou.

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