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Article: The Devil Is Real : Mario Vargas Llosa attempts to depict the final days of the Dominican tyrant Rafael Trujillo yet cannot make the dictator come alive as a human being.
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- The World and I
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- April 1, 2002
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Alfred Mac Adam is professor of Spanish at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is a translator, most recently of Alfredo Bryce Echenique's Tarzan's Tonsillitis (2001), and edits Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, a publication of the Americas Society.
Mario Vargas Llosa's long, dazzling career began auspiciously in 1963 with The Time of the Hero, a prizewinning autobiographical novel set in a military school in the heart of Lima. Since then, Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) has embarked on the methodical artistic conquest of his native Peru, setting his fictions in the Andes, the Amazonian jungles, and the northern and southern deserts. This geographical ...