Provides an introduction and an overview of the author's career and analyses his work.

Weaving analysis with discussions of the write's political commentary, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the author's youthful identity as a leftist student of the 1960s to a repudiation of some of his earlier ideas beginning in the 1980s. Providing a unique perspective on the complexity, nuance, and scope of Vargas Llosa's lauded early novels and on his passionate support of indigenous populations in his homeland, Williams then turns his eye to the...

This insider's account of Colombia's culture ans customs helps the reader develop a balanced view of Colombian life today.