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	Mario Vargas Llosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mario Vargas Llosa (birth name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa) (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer who is one of Latin America's leading novelists and essayists.
		Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa to a middle class family of Spanish forebears, the only child of Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta.
		The novel confirmed Vargas Llosa in his position as an important voice of Latin American narrative and went on to win the first edition of the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize in 1967, out-voting works by the veteran Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti and Garcia Marquez.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa (1434 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Vargas Llosa, Mario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO [Vargas Llosa, Mario], 1936-, Peruvian novelist and politician.
		In his fiction, Vargas Llosa paints a portrait of Peruvian society that is both severe and tender.
		Vargas Llosa was an unsuccessful candidate for Peruvian president in 1990; he described the vagaries of his campaign in A Fish in the Water: A Memoir (1993, tr.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/VargasL1l.asp (474 words)

	Interview \| Mario Vargas Llosa
		Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is so many things he is best described as a modern-day Renaissance man. Politician, playwright, art, film and literature critic and essayist, he is perhaps best known as one of a handful of novelists that have brought contemporary Latin American literature to the forefront internationally.
		It was important to Vargas Llosa to not portray Trujillo as a monster from the get-go, but rather as a human being who lost his humanness as he accumulated power.
		Vargas Llosa explains that, although Urania was an invented character, what happened to her happened to many Dominican women.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/vargasllosa.html (1683 words)

	University of Florida International Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, literary critic, who is one of the central writers in the Hispanic world.
		Vargas Llosa started his literary career in Europe, but most of his novels are set in Peru.
		Although Vargas Llosa has followed the tradition of social protest of Peruvian fiction exposing political corruption, machismo, racial prejudices, and violence, he has underlined that a writer should never preach or compromise artistic aims for ideological propaganda.
	www.ufic.ufl.edu /ispspeakers/03-30-06.htm (148 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Vargas Llosa, Mario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vargas Llosa, Mario VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO [Vargas Llosa, Mario], 1936-, Peruvian novelist and politician.
		Mario Vargas Llosa: mundos sin lÃmites: en una entrevista con AmÃ©ricas, este renombrado escritor peruano habla de su incansable curiosidad por descifrar problemas interculturales, histÃ³ricos y barreras polÃticas.(Entrevista)
		The fox and the hedgehog: the long march of Mario Vargas Llosa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/13357.html (486 words)

	Review \| Letters to A Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
		Vargas Llosa calls the desire to write, "a basic questioning of reality." Convinced that people who are satisfied with reality do not desire to write, he then proceeds to decipher the inner world of the writer.
		Vargas Llosa's idea of a writer entails the notion of one who is a sort of metaphysical conjurer.
		Vargas Llosa is very objective and even gracious in acknowledging the work of notable and established Spanish and Latin American writers such as: Barroja, Borges, Cervantes and Garcia Marquez.
	www.januarymagazine.com /artcult/lettersyoungwriter.html (1251 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| The Guardian Profile: Mario Vargas Llosa
		Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in Arequipa, a colonial city at the foot of the Misti volcano in southern Peru.
		For Vargas Llosa, the eroticism of his novels In Praise Of The Stepmother (1988) and The Notebooks Of Don Rigoberto (1997) is also an "expression of civilisation, where sex is surrounded by rituals and ceremonies; you don't have it in primitive societies".
		Vargas Llosa has always said the social obligations of the Latin American writer are more onerous than those of their counterparts in Europe.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,668155,00.html (4040 words)

	News -- Vargas Llosa Decries Dictators in Lecture
		Vargas Llosa described the inspiration for his novel, citing his life in Peru under a rigid dictatorship that “marked his youth.” He later traveled to the Dominican Republic, a beautiful country filled with people eager to recount stories about their lives under Trujillo.
		Vargas Llosa, who lost the 1990 Peruvian presidential election to Alberto Fujimori, said that he would not consider running again for the presidency of Peru and that he himself was “a very bad politician.”
		Vargas Llosa, as a writer who has traveled to numerous countries either under dictatorships or recovering from them, was able to offer a unique perspective to students at the presentation.
	www.thehoya.com /news/092303/news3.cfm (703 words)

	Vargas Llosa takes harsh look at Latin world
		Vargas Llosa cites the history of state control in the region's powerful pre-European societies, the legacy of church authority from Spain and Portugal and the tradition of Napoleonic law that made the state supreme.
		Vargas Llosa's analysis grows more passionate as he ticks off the misdeeds of centuries of leaders who exploited this "hidden machinery" of state oppression to serve power instead of the people.
		Vargas Llosa also sees the powerful upwelling of the social underground in the shift from Catholicism to evangelical worship in Guatemala and Brazil and in the growth of informal justice systems in poor mountain communities in Peru and Chile.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/03/WBGPED0TCN1.DTL (955 words)

	The Devil Is Real: Commentary on Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat - Alfred MacAdam
		Mario Vargas Llosa's long, dazzling career began auspiciously in 1963 with The Time of the Hero, a prizewinning autobiographical novel set in a military school in the heart of Lima.
		His personal territorial ambitions aside, there is, in the context of the modern Spanish-American novel, nothing strange in Vargas Llosa's fascination with Peru: his peers--writers who came to prominence during the sixties, such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, and Manuel Puig--all write primarily about their own nations.
		Vargas Llosa embodies the old literary adage "Write about what you know." He writes about the Peru whose history he meticulously researched as a university student in Lima during the fifties, and he writes about himself within that nation.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2002/april/Sa22184.htm (288 words)

	The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - read review
		In prose which is dense, dramatic, and saturated with images of violence of all kinds, Vargas Llosa reconstructs the final, tumultuous years of Rafael Trujillo's despotism in the Dominican Republic.
		Mario Vargas Llosa's was born in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru.
		I in 1990 Vargas Llosa was a conservative candidate (Fredemo, the Democratic Front) for the Peruvian presidency.
	mostlyfiction.com /latin/vargas_llosa.htm (864 words)

	ECUADOR: Indigenous Leaders Angry at Vargas Llosa's Remarks
		Vargas Llosa's remarks are offensive and insulting to the people of Latin America, said Iza, who called for respect for the diversity represented by Ecuador's indigenous movement as well as indigenous groups in the rest of the region.
		Vargas Llosa said such demands are incompatible with civilisation and development, ''and in the short- or long-term drag us into barbarism.
		Vargas Llosa seems to have completely lost his identity and even the words that he used so well in his time to depict reality in Latin America, the reality of the long-suffering Latin America,'' Ulcuango told IPS in an interview.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=21075 (1062 words)

	The Way to Paradise - Mario Vargas Llosa
		Vargas Llosa combines the most Whiggish kind of history with a novelist's disregard for the truth.
		Vargas Llosa lingers over the suffering, too, presumably to show that their obsessions are more important to them than mere pain and hardship, that even complete physical decay won't stop them.
		She has a strong personality, but Vargas Llosa relies on the claim of that too much in trying to convince readers of what she does.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/vargas/paraiso.htm (2168 words)

	Vargas Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Llosa's most ambitious novel in years--and the one with the greatest commercial reach--"The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto" tells the story of a man who records his sexual encounters with his wife, his sexual fantasies, and sexual episodes modeled on those depicted in great paintings.
		Vargas Llosa's native Peru; the setting, the near future, in which the country has become a battleground for the major world powers.
		In 1990, Mario Vargas Llosa decided to run for the presidency of his native Peru, campaigning on a platform of economic reform and stringent counterterrorism against the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Vargas (922 words)

	News -- Mario Vargas Llosa Concludes Residency With Open Forum
		Vargas Llosa, who has written 15 novels as well as numerous critical essays, articles and plays, said he could not choose a favorite novel, likening it to choosing a favorite child.
		Vargas Llosa said that writers have not only an artistic commitment, but a social and political one as well.
		Vargas Llosa also wrote The Feast of the Goat, a novel of dictator Rafael Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic in the mid-20th century.
	www.thehoya.com /news/120503/news9.cfm (551 words)

	The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto - Mario Vargas Llosa
		The characters in The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto were first introduced in Vargas Llosa's earlier novel, In Praise of the Stepmother.
		The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is basically a continuation of Vargas Llosa's enjoyable In Praise of the Stepmother (see our review), and we certainly suggest you read that volume first (though this one can be enjoyed without any familiarity with the first one).
		Some of this is fun -- Vargas Llosa has a nice passage in which he rips into Patricia Highsmith and her Peruvian fans, for example -- but he naturally also comes off as quite a snob.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/vargas/notebook.htm (1149 words)

	Amazon.com: Letters to a Young Novelist: Books: Mario Vargas Llosa,Mario Vargas Llosa,Natasha Wimmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vargas Llosa's 12 Letters to a generalized interlocutor drift in and out of Rilke's league, rich with insight into Western literature and with commentary on the urge that overtakes its practitioners "The literary vocation is not a hobby, a sport, or a pleasant leisure-time activity.
		In "Letters to a Young Novelist" Vargas Llosa shares the name of authors that have shaped his life as a writer, along with his personal insight on narrative techniques, and an unconditional love for the written word.
		Many of the novelists Vargas Llosa sites for his many examples are unknown to me and he has roused my interest in reading their books.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374119163?v=glance (1384 words)

	Spanish Resources: Mario Vargas Llosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mario Vargas Llosa es un escritor y político peruano.
		Vargas Llosa es un autor bien respetado, y también corrió para la Presidencia de Perú.
		Vargas Llosa is a well respected author, and also ran for the Presidency of Peru.
	www.mscd.edu /~mdl/sparesources/men/vargasllosa.htm (76 words)

	Making Waves - Mario; Llosa, Mario Vargas; King, John Vargas Llosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As Vargas Llosa puts it: "A writer has no better way of serving his country than by writing with as much discipline and honesty as he can....
		Spanning thirty years of writing, these essays trace the development of Mario Vargas Llosa’s thinking on politics and culture, and show the breadth of his interests and passions.
		Spanning 30 years of writing, these essays traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and show the breadth of his interests and passions.
	www.biblio.com /books/49890593.html (448 words)

	Amazon.com: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: A Novel: Books: Mario Vargas Llosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vargas Llosa uses counterpoint, paradox, and satire to explore the creative process of writing and its relation to the daily lives of writers.
		Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
		Vargas Llosa is a writer's writer, and here he has crafted a clever and witty story about story-telling.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140248927?v=glance (2552 words)

	Fpa.es - awarded Mario Vargas Llosa
		Tony Hunter Grass awarded Mario Vargas Llosa was born on the indigenous population and the various reforms that he him the fight of poetic created children from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
		Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1932, invested over the four Australian Opens.
		Alongside him one of the epidemic of HIV/AIDS and qualities; awarded Mario Vargas Llosa how chimpanzees use of writer and disease cultural phenomena in 1915,is considered to become then- the second half years late the world Champion (Stuttgart 93) in Mathematizing mechanisms of cellular biology.
	www.fpa.es /awarded/Mario-Vargas-Llosa.html (343 words)

	The Perpetual Orgy - Mario Vargas Llosa
		The first is the most personal, more autobiographical than analytical, describing Vargas Llosa's encounters with the book.
		Vargas Llosa shows a deep critical understanding of the text, and offers a useful gloss on it, but it is particularly his personal relationship with the book -- what it has meant for him and what he has gotten out of it -- that make it valuable.
		Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/flaubert/mbovary2.htm (477 words)

	The Other Vargas Llosa - Arts & Opinions Archive - MSNBC.com
		Vargas Llosa is an outstanding novelist, although the consensus among critics is that his early fiction is far superior to his later works, even his two recent historical novels, the admirable “The Feast of the Goat” and “El Paraiso en la Otra Esquina,” a novel about Paul Gauguin, which hasn’t been released in translation yet.
		At the time, many of us thought that, no matter what the result of the election in Peru was, Vargas Llosa’s literary career was over; he appeared to have invested too much of himself in the campaign.
		Vargas Llosa began as a sympathizer of Fidel Castro’s revolution.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3069199 (1459 words)

	Powell's Books - The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.
		"Vargas Llosa's account of Balaguer's apotheosis is a tour de force depiction of political skill.
		"With mesmerizing elan, Vargas Llosa alternates between these two time periods, not only achieving a full-blown, even sensitive portrait of Trujillo, his underlings, and his assassins but also piecing together Urania's relationship with her father, a tale that leads to a devastating revelation that will pierce the reader's heart.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0312420277-0 (535 words)

	Mario Vargas Llosa Biography / Biography of Mario Vargas Llosa Main Biography
		The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist, critic, journalist, screenwriter, and essayist, abandoned writing at least temporarily in 1990 to run unsuccessfully for president of his country.
		Like many of the characters in his fiction, (Jorge) Mario (Pedro) Vargas Llosa, internationally acclaimed Peruvian writer and recipient of almost every literary award short of the Nobel Prize, is something of a paradox.
		As his country's leading presidential candidate, campaigning for the center-right coalition, Fredemo, or the Democratic Front, he had come a long way from the days when he supported the Cuban revolution and was an active member in Cahuide, a small underground remnant of Peru's then-outlawed Communist Party.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-mario-vargas-llosa (237 words)

	Three Plays - Mario Vargas Llosa
		Memory, especially, is significant -- and here it is the reshaping of memory that comes with the act of remembering that Vargas Llosa is particularly effective at conveying.
		The short introductions usefully complement the plays, though they are more general explanations of Vargas Llosa's approach in writing; certainly, the introductions make worthwhile reading on their own.
		Vargas Llosa is a fine storyteller, and these short, closed pieces, largely concentrating on a limited number of episodes, allow him to tell his stories in yet more different ways.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/vargas/3plays.htm (417 words)

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