Mario Vargas Llosa Online Discussion
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa born March 28, 1936. more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa Spanish is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor.
The literary reputation of Mario Vargas Llosa was established early in his prolific career. The Nobel prize for literature, bestowed on him this year, would have been deserved two decades or more ago. But back then the award would have been deplored by many Latin Americans who liked his novels but not his politics. For not only is Mr Vargas Llosa Latin America's most accomplished living writer, he is also a thinker who battles for democracy, the market economy and individual liberty.
In its citation the Swedish committee commended Mr Vargas Llosa for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.” This describes well two of his finest novels, written more than three decades apart. “Conversation in the Cathedral”, an early work of astonishing maturity, is set in his native Peru in the 1950s, during a dictatorship. “The Feast of the Goat”, published in 2000, explores the cruel regime of General Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. They are subtle studies of the psychology of power and its corruption of human integrity.
The literary reputation of Mario Vargas Llosa was established early in his prolific career. The Nobel prize for literature, bestowed on him this year, would have been deserved two decades or more ago. But back then the award would have been deplored by many Latin Americans who liked his novels but not his politics. For not only is Mr Vargas Llosa Latin America's most accomplished living writer, he is also a thinker who battles for democracy, the market economy and individual liberty.
In its citation the Swedish committee commended Mr Vargas Llosa for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.” This describes well two of his finest novels, written more than three decades apart. “Conversation in the Cathedral”, an early work of astonishing maturity, is set in his native Peru in the 1950s, during a dictatorship. “The Feast of the Goat”, published in 2000, explores the cruel regime of General Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. They are subtle studies of the psychology of power and its corruption of human integrity.
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