Daniel Rey

Mario Vargas Llosa’s Damascene conversion to liberalism

Shocked by the authoritarianism of Cuba and the USSR, the Peruvian writer turned his back on communism in the 1960s, influenced by seven liberal European thinkers

Mario Vargas Llosa. [Getty Images]
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  • The Call of the Tribe: Essays

    Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by John King

    Faber, pp. 288, £18

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