Political Awakening
Mario Vargas Llosa fictionalizes the life of a conflicted liberator
Graeme Wood

El Sueno del Celta / The Dream of the Celt (Spanish Edition)
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Alfaguara
$19.99 List Price
Those who wish to see politics in everything frequently get their wish. The selection of a Nobel laureate in literature is a case in point. In 2001, the choice of V. S. Naipaul looked to some like a post-9/11 gesture of sympathy with America—even an endorsement of America's incipient military rebukes to Islamism. Four years later, awarding the anti-American Harold Pinter looked like a rebuke to the American rebuke. And
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