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...Mario Vargas Llosa...
...least 100 degrees in the noonday sun. Mario Vargas Llosa stands on an outdoor stage draped with sewn-together sheets pinned with red and white paper flowers. He is in Bagua, a dusty town in the north Peruvian jungle known more for its rice growing than for its literary sophistication. As the primarily Indian audience of several thousand watches, a partially toothless man wearing sunglasses and a pale blue guayabera hoarsely yells, "Mario, Presidente! Mario, Presidente!" Then the candidate speaks, promising, if he is elected this coming Sunday, to bring prosperity to the Amazonas province. "In this region," he proclaims...
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa (1982). Juxtaposing a romance between the narrator, Mario, 18, and his nonblood relative Julia, 32, with the saga of a writer of soap-opera scripts, this novel, set in Peru during the 1950s, displays Vargas Llosa -- now a candidate for the presidency of that troubled country -- in a wry, confessional, accessible mood that may never appear again...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world-class author in splendid form...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in splendid form...