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"Long Chat in the Bar" is one of the most creatively ambitious works of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. It may also be an excellent example of how this contemporary writer uses literature to think politically. The background of the novel is the dictatorship of General Odelia (1948-1956). It tells the story of the moral collapse of Santiago Zavala, a young man from a middle-class family, and his literary ambitions under the control of the corrupt power of the dictatorship. How dream intellectuals gradually give up their ideals. The novel comprehensively describes the situation in Lima at that time and shows the whole picture of Peruvian society.