Mario Vargas Llosa's essay "Why Literature?" raises several interesting points. He emphasizes the important place literature holds in our society and the ability it has to initiate change. He also states that literature must be radical, rebellious, and extreme to be considered great, and that only t...
Mario Llosa said in Interviews with Latin American Writers, that by living in Europe, he received "a broadened education" and a "comprehensive perspective, which helped me understand the things in my own country."3 Other major factors in the change of cultural ideas surfaced from the revolutions and wars that occurred right before and during the twentieth century. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, notes that "In New York I have always felt that I was at the center of the world, in a modern Babylon, a sort of Borgesian aleph with representation of all the languages, religions, and cultures of the planet, and from which there circulate to the globe all fashions and vices, values and nonvalues, usages, customs, music, images and prototypes resulting from the incredible mixtures in this city"(393). ...
PART 1: TRIP PREPARATION Welcome everyone! We are glad to finally reach our departure date, as it has seemed a lifetime; we are now ready to begin our journey. We hope that everyone is extremely excited, for we are about to embark on a journey that will open doorways to a world that most people will only dream of. We will be traveling to the beautiful, diverse country of Peru. Our stops will be in the city of Lima, various cities and towns of the Andes Mountains, and we will visit the ruins of Machu Pichu. ...
