Sunday, October 16, 2016

Touchstones

Mario Vargas Llosa's wide-ranging interests and lucid thinking are on display in this book of essays published in English in 2011. The literary pieces are signposts to books that the reader can, with assurance, profitably pursue, given the author's impeccable taste. Perhaps most striking in 2016 are two essays on the Peruvian dictatorship, whose main players and attributes have found a sickening echo to the north.

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