Vargas Llosa's wide-ranging `Waves'

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: July 30, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

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, Anglophile, radio personality, and exiled social gadfly and intellectual -- is well represented in this invigorating collection. John King, who has selected the essays, has "tried to provide as broad a range as possible of Vargas Llosa's recurring obsessions, the development of his literary and political ...

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