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Feb 20, 2018 · In response, Fujimori’s head of the armed forces, Nicolás de Bari Hermoza, suggested that Vargas Llosa was deliberately harming Peruvians. Álvaro Vargas Llosa told me that they learned...
- Marcela Valdes
Mar 9, 2015 · In the course of Mario Vargas Llosa’s seventy-nine years, Peru has alternated between dictatorship and democracy with the sort of regularity that other countries experience through mere ...
- Thomas Mallon
Jul 19, 2023 · In 1974, after nearly two decades of living in Paris, London, and Barcelona, Vargas Llosa moved back to Peru and, shocking many fans in the literary world, declared his adherence to...
In it, the prominent Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa described how eight journalists, five from Lima and two from the city of Ayacucho, traveled to the highlands to investigate reports that comuneros of a small peasant community of Huaychao had killed seven "terroristas, " members of the insurgent Commu- nist Party of Peru commonly known as S...
May 26, 2016 · In 1990, Vargas Llosa took political activism further than any of his literary contemporaries and ran for president of Peru, as the head of a coalition of conservative, Catholic, and pro-business parties.
Dec 11, 2015 · 17 Frank Dauster comments on the Slave, the Poet, and the Jaguar as representative of Peruvian social strata, thus placing the work in a historico-social continuum. See his “Vargas Llosa and the End of Chivalry,” Books Abroad, 44, 2 (Winter, 1970): 41–42.
What angers Peruvians most is that Mr. Vargas Llosa spares no one, including former supporters of his Libertad movement. He describes as "cheap intellectuals" those leftists who denounced...
