Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Cathedral" is a venue that stands in stark contradiction to its grand and venerable name, symbolizing the very respectable, very Catholic, and very old city of Lima. In this establishment, the gentleman's son Zavala and the black servant Ambrosio engage in a lengthy conversation that reconstructs a multitude of individual fates, forming the framework of the novel. Through these fates, Vargas Llosa exposes a society shaped by a perverse political system at all levels, affecting each individual. The historical dictator Manuel Odría, who served as the President of Peru from 1948 to 1956, remains invisible in the novel, as long as nothing is revealed about how the 'peace and order' maintained in the country is upheld. The main political figure is his creation, the Sic.