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Asedios a Julio Ramon Ribeyro. Ismael P. Marquez, Cesar Ferreira, eds. Lima. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Fondo Editorial. 1996. 320 pages. ISBN 9972-42-038-8.
Julio Ramon Ribeyro (1929-1994), a Peruvian writer who lived most of his adult years in Paris, came to the attention of the reading public in the mid-1950s, associated with such contemporaries as Sebastian Salazar Bondy and Enrique Congrains Martin. This group of writers was known for its fiction and essays centering on urban slumdwellers and the lower middle class; Ribeyro also produced, with an insider's perspective, portraits of the threadbare ex-aristocracy. Over the forty years of Ribeyro's publishing career, he diversified his efforts, writing theater, essays, and intimate diaries as well as prose fiction and creating characters from many types of backgrounds. He remained linked in readers' minds with the genre of the short...