Mario Vargas Llosa: "Yes, everything is very bad, but we have never been better"

• Presentation of 'Hard times'. "We must investigate to lie with knowledge of cause"
• Documentary: The Francoist censor who told Vargas Llosa: "Thanks to me, 'The city and the dogs' were published"
• Controversy: Vargas Llosa: López Obrador should have sent the letter "to himself", instead of to the King
• More information.All news about Vargas Llosa in EL MUNDO

Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, Hard Times (Alfagura), is complementary to La fiesta del Chivo : a recreation of the broken dream of Guatemala in the 1940s that saw how the legitimate government of Jacobo Árnez was dynamited by the military, the CIA and the support of Leónidas Trujillo. A metaphor for the troubles of Latin America. The Nobel receives EL MUNDO at his house in Puerta de Hierro (Madrid).

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• Mario Vargas Llosa
• novel
• literature
• America
• culture
• history

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