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Why did he turn?

Tony Wood: Mario Vargas Llosa in Moscow, 20 March 2025

Cinco días en Moscú: Mario Vargas Llosa y el socialismo soviético 
by Carlos Aguirre and Kristina Buynova.
Reino de Almagro, 185 pp., £12.50, January 2024, 978 612 49274 1 6
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... Days in Moscow’), the Peruvian historian Carlos Aguirre and the Russian scholar of Latin America Kristina Buynova draw on Soviet archival materials and Vargas Llosa’s correspondence to reconstruct his visit (many of the original documents are included in the book). What emerges from their careful sifting of the evidence is that at the time, Vargas ...

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