Mario Vargas Llosa
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Bartleby
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By the way, his latest novel has just been published in English, and the reviews are quite positive:
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All Book Marks reviews for Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa trans. by Adrian Nathan West
A positive rating based on 14 book reviews for Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa trans. by Adrian Nathan West
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Dante
Wild Reader
Mario Varags Llosa received 18 out of 22 votes (which included two non-votes) in the first and only round of voting -- a stunning election-result; usually these elections go through several rounds, and it's almost unheard of, even in the final instance, to get that high a percentage of the votes.
At least we have a pretty good idea who those two votes against belonged to.
Isn't that right, Daniel and Ludus?
At least we have a pretty good idea who those two votes against belonged to.
Isn't that right, Daniel and Ludus?
Ludus
Reader
Seguro va a decir que somos unos populistas autoritarios, ¿verdad, Dan?
Daniel del Real
Moderator
Not surprising anymore, this man is a disgrace for Latinoamérica. Peruvian writer Diego Trelles Paz and Colombian Felipe Restrepo Pombo were rightfully bashing him at the recent bookfair for endorsing Keiko Fujimori, a criminal and daughter of a dictator who is in prison, and Iván Duque, a puppet and the continuity of the Uribismo in Colombia.
The best that could happen to him right now, in order to stop hurting what is left his legacy, is to pass away, as we all know he's not going to shut up.
Ludus
Reader
And apparently there is a group of french intellectuals who agree with us.
No quieren a Mario Vargas Llosa en la Academia Francesa de la lengua
Intelectuales franceses señalan su cercanía a la extrema derecha, junto a una larga lista de actos por los que consideran no debería formar parte del selecto grupo
Daniel del Real
Moderator
Ludus
Reader
May he rip in peaceAnd now, after yesterday's results in Chile, Vargas LLORA again
(His dignity, of course)
Daniel del Real
Moderator
His dignity died the day he lost to Fujimori.
ralfy
Reader
Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa joins Académie Française
Peruvian Nobel-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa was set to join the fabled Academie Francaise in Paris on Thursday, the first member never to have written a book in French.
www.france24.com
Ben Jackson
Well-known member
After reading the not so good In Praise of Step-Mother, here are Llosa's books I plan to read:
Feast of a Goat
Conversations in a Cathedral
War at the End of the World
Aunt Julia and Scriptwriter
Green House
Time of the Hero
Which of these books should I start first?
Feast of a Goat
Conversations in a Cathedral
War at the End of the World
Aunt Julia and Scriptwriter
Green House
Time of the Hero
Which of these books should I start first?
Daniel del Real
Moderator
At this point I'm 100% sure there's a ghost writer behind all of this.
Since the beginning of the new millennium, I prefer to think.
Bartleby
Moderator
And it seems he is, stopping, that is:
Mario Vargas Llosa says latest novel will be his last
Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’
www.theguardian.com
I haven't read Harsh Times (Tiempos Recios), which on paper seems to be a return to form, but his recent output really did suggest he'd just better quit while he was on top... Not every Nobel winner is a Coetzee...