The Devil Is Real : Mario Vargas Llosa attempts to depict the final days of the Dominican tyrant Rafael Trujillo yet cannot make the dictator come alive as a human being.

From: The World and I | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Alfred Mac Adam is professor of Spanish at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a translator, most recently of Alfredo Bryce Echenique's Tarzan's Tonsillitis (2001), and edits Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, a publication of the Americas Society.

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. Since then, Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) has embarked on the methodical artistic conquest of his native Peru, setting his fictions in the ...

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