Finding the way: Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Way to Paradise, is more than just a story about the painter Paul Gauguin. It's the next step in what's been a lifelong search.(Critical Essay)

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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA HAS LONG BEEN interested in the idea of utopia.

As a novelist, he was looking for an artistic version of it when he left his native Peru for Europe in the early '60s. (His first novel, The Time of the Hero, was a sendup of Peru's military culture, and hundreds of copies were burned by the country's military government.) Over the next decade, he turned himself, novel by novel, into the literary voice of an entire generation of Latin American readers, a "founding father of a literature," in the words of Edith Grossman, his English-language translator. But he ...

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