Word: llosa
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AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER by Mario Vargas Llosa Translated by Helen R. Lane; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 374 pages...
...novel is a bedazzlement of popular entertainment and what, after more than 50 resistant years, is still called experimental writing. Its author, Mario Vargas Llosa, 45, is a versatile Peruvian with a growing international reputation. His previous novels include The Time of the Hero, The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral. The War of the End of the World, an untranslated novel of a 19th century peasant uprising in Brazil, is currently a bestseller in Spain and South America. His plays, criticism and topical articles appear regularly, and he recently wrote about the World Cup soccer matches for Barcelona...
...Lima, where Vargas Llosa lives with his wife and three children, he is not only a cultural celebrity but a man who is expected to have the answers to public questions. This is both the blessing and the burden of many writers in Latin America and Europe, where literature and politics retain close ties. For an author in a poor An dean country with a large uneducated Indian population, the is sues and responsibilities are sharpened. "If you are a writer," says Vargas Llosa, "you are a privileged man in this kind of society." Many of his conservative countrymen have...
Ricardo Pau-Llosa Miami...