Mario Vargas Llosa 1936-2025

Mario Vargas Llosa has died at the age of 89. In a recent issue of the London Review, Tony Wood wrote about the Peruvian novelist’s trip to Moscow in 1968, when his disenchantment with socialism began (or so he later claimed). Further back in the LRB archive you can read Rachel Nolan on Harsh Times, Colm Tóibín on The Dream of the Celt, Michael Wood on The Feast of the Goat, Lorna Scott Fox on The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, Philip Horne on The Perpetual Orgy, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service , The War of the End of the World and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, John Sturrock on The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, and Ronan Bennett on Vargas Llosa’s political ambitions (and the Shining Path).

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