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Interview: Mario Vargas Llosa talks about how his country of Peru responded culturally, psychologically and politically to years of terrorist activity
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NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
11-25-2001
Interview: Mario Vargas Llosa talks about how his country of Peru responded culturally, psychologically and politically to years of terrorist activity
Host: LISA SIMEONE
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
LISA SIMEONE, host:
After September 11th, one phrase has been repeated over and over: `Things will never be the same again.' Over the past two months, Americans have seen strict airport security and precautio...
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Interview: Mario Vargas Llosa talks about how his country of Peru responded culturally, psychologically and politically to years of terrorist activity
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 Interview: Mario Vargas Llosa talks about how his country of Peru responded culturally, psychologically and politically to years of terrorist activity Host: LISA SIMEONE Time: 8:00-9:00 PM LISA SIMEONE, host: After September 11th, one phrase has been repeated over and over: `Things will
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CREATING A PRIVATE UTOPIA VARGAS LLOSA SEEKS PERFECTION IN ART; IN POLITICS, HE SAYS, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
The Boston Globe
; Writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the defeated candidate for the presidency of Peru, leans back in his chair and speaks of Don Rigoberto, the central character in his novel "In Praise of the Stepmother," just published in the United States. "He was a man who, in his youth, was socially motivated. A
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FROM BOOKS TO BALLOTS CAN VARGAS LLOSA MIX HIS LITERARY CAREER WITH POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS?
The Boston Globe
; Can the talent of a 53-year-old novelist, one of Latin America's foremost writers, survive the rigors of a presidential campaign in chaotic Peru? Vaclav Havel pulled off a similar feat, but the difference between Czechoslovakia and Peru is immeasurable. By any US political standard, Mario Vargas
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The real-life adventures of Mario Vargas Llosa
The Boston Globe
; A FISH IN THE WATER A Memoir By Mario Vargas Llosa Translated, from the Spanish, by Helen Lane Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 532 pp., $25 "The moral obligation wasn't the decisive factor," states the wife of Mario Vargas Llosa about his unsuccessful 1990 bid for the Peruvian presidency. "It was the
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VARGAS LLOSA'S WIDE-RANGING `WAVES'
The Boston Globe
; Mario Vargas Llosa -- erstwhile candidate for the presidency of Peru, novelist, cineaste, literary critic, newspaper columnist, copy editor, football fan, Anglophile, radio personality, and exiled social gadfly and intellectual -- is well represented in this invigorating collection. John King, who
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ESSAYS FOR MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLITICS AND ART, SAYS IAN THOMSON
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Touchstones: Essays in Literature, Art and Politics BY MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TR BY JOHN KING FABER, pounds 25, 354 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Mario Vargas Llosa has often been maligned as a conservative force within South American writing. In 1990 he ran on a free-market ticket in
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Vargas Llosa's wide-ranging `Waves'
The Boston Globe
; MAKING WAVES Essays By Mario Vargas Llosa Edited and translated, from the Spanish, by John King Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 338 pp., $27.50 Mario Vargas Llosa -- erstwhile candidate for the presidency of Peru, novelist, cineaste, literary critic, newspaper columnist, copy editor, football fan,
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A WRITER OUT OF WATER; Mario Vargas Llosa Lost His Race for President of Peru. He Found Some Hard Truths.
The Washington Post
; Pretend for a moment that Michael Dukakis took off for Zurich three days after he lost the '88 election. Suppose he announced he was going to become a Swiss citizen. Imagine further Dukakis saying the policies of the newly elected George Bush disgusted him, and that other nations should impose
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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.
World and I
; 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,
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Novelist Leading Polls on Peru Vote; Vargas Llosa Said to Be Short of 50% Needed to Avoid Runoff
The Washington Post
; Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is heavily favored to finish first in Peru's presidential election Sunday, but polls indicate his support has slipped in recent weeks and that he might not win the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff. Vargas Llosa's backing apparently peaked last month and now has
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