The Leoncio Prado Military Academy ( Spanish : Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado ) is a Peruvian educational institution founded on 27 August 1943 by President of the Republic Manuel Prado Ugarteche and Secretary of Education Elías La Rosa.
10-657: The academy came to worldwide notice as the setting of the novel The Time of the Hero by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa . A military-style high school with boarding facilities, it serves as both a military high school and the preparatory school for potential officers of the Peruvian Armed Forces , who make up most of its alumni. On 18 January 1944, through Law 9890, the Academy was named after Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez , one of
20-571: A 1960s novel is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . The City and the Dogs The City and the Dogs ( Spanish : La ciudad y los perros ) is a 1985 Peruvian drama film directed by Francisco José Lombardi . It is based on The Time of the Hero , a 1963 novel by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa , which tells
30-502: A military secondary school to a Professional Education Centre, based on the Academic Reform standards which were being implemented at the time. Most of the teachers of the previous era migrated away from the school and a new group of teachers joined the Academy. In 1982, it was decided to keep it as a secondary school. Currently, its academic programme is based on the guidelines of Peru's Ministry of Education . The Time of
40-443: Is also described to portray a microcosm of the Peruvian society. It features themes such as masculinity, hierarchy, secrecy and the military. The story concerns the theft of an examination paper by the cadet Cava carried out under orders from Jaguar, the brutal leader of a group of cadets called The Circle. The theft is reported by a lowly cadet called The Slave whom Jaguar consequently murders during military maneuvers. Concerned for
50-615: The Hero The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros , literally "The City and the Dogs") is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa . It was Vargas Llosa's first novel and is set among the cadets at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima , which he attended as a teenager. The novel portrays the school so scathingly that its leadership burned many copies and condemned
60-562: The Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific (and the President's half-brother through their father Mariano Ignacio Prado 's first marriage). On 15 July 1944, it was officially inaugurated and started to function. The first authorities of the Academy were Headmaster Army Colonel José del Carmen Marín Arista and Academic Director Dr. Manuel Velasco Alvarado. In 1945, Colonel Juan Mendoza Rodríguez took over
70-511: The book as Ecuadorian propaganda against Peru. It won the 1962 Premio Biblioteca Breve for best unpublished novel and the 1963 Premio de la Crítica Española . The novel is notable for its experimental and complex employment of multiple perspectives in a non-linear fashion . A technique influenced by William Faulkner and particularly the novel Light in August . It is a story about adolescence and young males transition to manhood, but
80-523: The direction of the school. Among the first teachers at the Academy were Gustavo Pons Muzzo, Alfredo Rebaza Acosta, Walter Peñalosa Ramella, Humberto Santillán Arista, Flavio Vega Villanueva, Ricardo Cazorla Sormani, and Luis Bedoya Reyes. The school is located in the La Perla District on the border of Callao and the San Miguel District, Lima on Costanera Avenue, number 1541. The structure
90-525: The school’s reputation, the administrators choose to ignore further evidence of Jaguar’s guilt. The novel is based on Vargas Llosa's own experiences of Leoncio Prado Military Academy , which he attended as a teenager in the early 1950s. He worked on the manuscript for the novel while he was living in France and it was published as his first novel in 1962. The novel was adapted into a 1985 film by Peruvian director Francisco Lombardi . This article about
100-418: Was originally based on the 'Guardia Chalaca Barracks', made of two pavilions without doors or windows. Later on, the school was furnished with other facilities like a dining room, bedrooms, an infirmary, laboratories, administrative offices, an auditorium, a swimming pool, a stadium, a library, a gym, and a coliseum enclosure. Between 1977 and 1981 it went through a period of reform aimed at transforming it from
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