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Ambassadorial Fiction
Rafferty, Terrence | March 29, 1986 issue

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The article discusses the book "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta," by Mario Vargas Llosa. Vargas Llosa is exceptionally coy, in this novel as in some of his others, about his characters' relationship to reality. He very deliberately blinds up the significance of statesman Alejandro Mayta's life, then just as pointedly wipes it all out. The scary thing is that it may not matter to Vargas Llosa. For all the impressive architecture of his earlier novels, none of them demonstrated an especially impressive talent for character. But none of these novels actively denied the reality of other people, the way the present novel does.

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REAL Life of Alejandro Mayta, The (Book); VARGAS Llosa, Mario, 1936-; BOOKS; CHARACTERS & characteristics in literature; MAYTA, Alejandro; LIFE
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