Overview
- Luis García Montero formally received the machine-typed original during a public homage to Alfredo Bryce Echenique at San Marcos University in Lima.
- The document joins the Caja de las Letras, expanding the Bryce legacy first deposited at the Cervantes in 2019.
- Ángel Esteban discovered the typescript in the former Paris home of Julio Ramón Ribeyro, after which Ribeyro’s son authorized the donation.
- The original comprises about 458 pages typed in the late 1960s with corrections in Bryce Echenique’s hand.
- Cervantes says the item will support study of the novel’s revision process before its 1970 publication by Editorial Barral.