Why Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez's friendship fell apart Their relationship ended abruptly after a tense encounter in Mexico City in 1976, one that would become literally legend.

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his children Álvaro, Gonzalo ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin American literature’s modern greats, died April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89. He died surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his children Álvaro, Gonzalo ...

Translator Gregory Rabassa, who worked on books by both Latin American giants, told the Paris Review in 2019 that the incident occurred after Garcia Marquez advised Patricia to leave Vargas Llosa ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose epic novels probed the moral depravity of authoritarian rule in Latin America and who sought to remedy social ills — as he insisted ...

According to his own account, Mario Vargas Llosa read the novel Madame Bovary six times between 1956 and 1975, a hyperbolic fact that should help understand many aspects of the Peruvian writer.At ...

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But before that, Vargas Llosa was a student of Marxism. He began to question it when he felt that the ideology was becoming a form of “brainwashing” that stifled him — as he would later ...

The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist. By Dwight Garner Once upon a time, during the last quarter of the 20th century, it was ...