Little Viper
Lorna Scott Fox: Mario Vargas Llosa, 17 September 1998
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
by Maria VargasLlosa, translated by Edith Grossman.
Faber, 259 pp., £15.99, July 1998,0 571 19309 9 Show More
by Maria VargasLlosa, translated by Edith Grossman.
Faber, 259 pp., £15.99, July 1998,
“... displaced the overripe, over-imitated Márquez from the top of my list: Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa. The first constructed a dream of Buenos Aires and Paris, balancing paper-thin speculations in a bubble of eternal studenthood. The second couldn’t have been more different. A pungent brutality steeped the many voices in sexualised ... ”