The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta is an astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and a searching account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. First published in English in 1986, the novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America.
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"With [The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta] Mario Vargas Llosa . . . has replaced Gabriel García Márquez as the South American novelist for gringos to catch up on." --John Updike, The New Yorker
"A glittering trompe l'oeil of a novel about the revolutionary temperament--and the nature of fiction." --The New York Times
"Mario Vargas Llosa [is] one of the master storytellers of our time." --Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World
"In a way, this novel about an obscure Peruvian revolutionary is a perfect introduction to Vargas Llosa." --Terrence Rafferty, The Nation
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