When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa?Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual?answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In ?Four Centuries of Don Quixote,? he revisits the quintessential Spanish novel?a fiction about fiction whose ebullient prose still questions the certainties of our stumbling ideals. In recounting his illicit, delicious discovery of Borges? fiction??the most important thing to happen to imaginative writing in the Spanish language in modern times??Vargas Llosa stands in for a generation of Latin American novelists who were liberated from their sense of isolation and inferiority by this Argentinean master of the European tradition. In a nuanced appreciation of Ortega y Gasset, Vargas Llosa recovers the democratic...
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