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Bryce Echenique Donates Original 'Un Mundo Para Julius' Manuscript to Instituto Cervantes

The typed, corrected pages resurfaced in Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s Paris home, opening new paths for scholars to trace the novel’s editing before its 1970 release.

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.