Vargas Llosa and Latin American politics / 
edited by Juan E. De Castro and Nicholas Birns. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2010. 
 - xii, 235 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>p.1. Mario Vargas Llosa and the neoliberal turn --  Mr. Vargas Llosa goes to Washington /  The wars of an old-fashioned (neoliberal) gentleman /  Let's make owners and entrepreneurs: glimpses of free marketeers in Vargas Llosa's novels /  Appropriation in the backlands: is Mario Vargas Llosa at war with Euclides da Cunha? /  Mario Vargas Llosa, the fabulist of queer cleansing /  Going native: anti-indigenism in Vargas Llosa's The storyteller and Death in the Andes /  The recovered childhood: utopian liberalism and mercantilism of the skin in A fish in the water /  Sex, politics and high art: Vargas Llosa's long road to The feast of the goat /  Humanism and criticism: The presence of French culture in Vargas Llosa's utopia /  Vargas Llosa's self-definition as 'the man who writes and thinks' /  Vargas Llosa and the history of ideas: avatars of a dictionary /  Juan E. De Castro --  Fabiola Escárzaga --  Jean O'Bryan Knight -- p.2. The writings of the 1980s and 1990s --  Nicholas Birns --  Paul Allatson --  Ignacio López-Calvo --  Sergio Franco -- p.3. Mario Vargas Llosa in the twenty-first century --  Gene H. Bell-Villada --  Roland Forgues -- p.4. Mario Vargas Llosa, man of letters --  Sabine Köllmann --  Wilfrido H. Corral. 
<br/><br/> Written from diverse perspectives, the eleven essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics portray the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist not only as one of the most celebrated writers of the last 50 years, but also as a central influence on the region's political evolution. Ever since his conversion to free market ideology in the 1980s, Mario Vargas Llosa has waged public battle against what he believes are the scourges of socialism and populism. This book studies the fiction and journalism of Vargas Llosa in the context of his political thought. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137270924 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010011095 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Crítica e interpretación.<br/>Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Political and social views.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Latin America--Politics and government.<br/>América Latina--Política y gobierno.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ 8498.32  / V297 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>863/.64