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Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency of Peru in 1990, read a long excerpt from his novel The Greenhouse...
Take the Incas. Inca civilization, writes Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, was a "pyramidal and theocratic society" of "totalitarian structure" in which "the individual had no importance and virtually no existence." Its foundation? "A state religion that took away the individual's free will and crowned the authority's decision with the aura of a divine mandate turned the Tawantinsuyu ((Incan empire)) into a beehive...
...PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The loser of Peru's presidential election returns to his typewriter with a sexy novel that proves the brain is also an erogenous zone...
When answered, these questions generate some genuine pathos. Still, despite his professed admiration for eroticism in fiction -- his book of essays on Flaubert is called The Perpetual Orgy -- Vargas Llosa seems uneasy with the conventions of the naughty book. For all his celebrations of the flesh -- his own and Lucrecia's -- Rigoberto might have been happier if he had got out a little more, maybe even run for President of Peru...
...very, very surprised," said Paz from New York City, where he was visiting a major mounting of Mexican art at the Metropolitan Museum. Less so was another Latin American writer often mentioned as a future Nobel laureate. A gracious Mario Vargas Llosa described Paz as "one of the greatest poets that the Spanish-language world has produced and, at the same time, a great humanist...