Yesterday, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. The mention read: “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”.
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This morning I read an interesting essay on Vargas Llosa. It was published by the NY Times.
An Appraisal: A Storyteller Enthralled by the Power of Art
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
At first glance, Mario Vargas Llosa’s novels seem like a one-man miscellany of subjects and styles: There are harrowing narratives based on historical events like Rafael Trujillo’s tyrannical rule over the Dominican Republic (“The Feast of the Goat”) and a 19th-century religious uprising in the backlands of Brazil (“The War of the End of the World”). Continue reading »
