A Son of the Rock

Peruvian author and Nobel Prize winner, Maria Vargas Llosa, the last of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, has died.

I have read eight of his books. Though varied in content they all (even his study of the life of Thomas Casement, The Dream of the Celt) deal with the effects of power and corruption: Latin American concerns to be sure but also applicable to the wider world.

I have two more of his novels on my tbr pile.

That still leaves ten of his novels to look out for.

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa: 28/3/1936 – 13/4/2025. So it goes.