Overview
- Bryce formally handed the manuscript to the Caja de las Letras during a San Marcos homage in Lima, with Cervantes director Luis García Montero receiving it.
- The document, kept for decades by the Ribeyro family after Bryce gifted it to his friend, was donated by Julio Ribeyro Cordero.
- The original comprises roughly 458–500 typed pages with corrections in the author’s hand.
- Instituto Cervantes says the deposit expands Bryce’s legacy first lodged in 2019 and secures preservation in its Madrid vault.
- Researchers will be able to study editorial changes leading to the 1970 Editorial Barral edition of the novel, a widely acclaimed landmark in Peruvian literature.