A Storyteller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism

In A Story-Teller, Braulio Mu-oz offers a critical appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa’s literary and political production from a sociotheoretical perspective. He engages the debate concerning the role of the writer in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative democractic positions.