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In this article I try to demonstrate Mario Vargas Llosa’s precocious abilities as author in the first short stories he wrote at nineteen-twenty years of age. My particular focus will be on the consciousness from the unconscious in the creative process of this author. There is an implicit presence of Freud’s lectures in Vargas Llosa’s early production, but my analysis will also touch upon the problem of the unconsciousness of the unconscious, primarily in two short stories from the book Los jefes: “El hermano menor” and “El abuelo”.