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Mario Vargas Llosa on
Retrospective
, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers
“It is the job of readers whose sensitivity is awakened by what is imagined there to know how to respond.”
By
Mario Vargas Llosa
| September 23, 2022
All Things Are Possible: Mario Vargas Llosa on the Eternal Youth of Flaubert’s Writing
"If we are to be honest, the true creator of the modern novel was Flaubert."
By
Mario Vargas Llosa
| August 29, 2022
City of Exiles: When Mario Vargas Llosa Met Julio Cortázar in Paris
What It Meant to Be a Mid-Century Latin American Writer in Paris
By
Mario Vargas Llosa
| March 1, 2018
Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture
From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning
By
Mario Vargas Llosa
| September 6, 2016
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