Vargas Llosa, Mario (Vol. 85) - Mario Vargas Llosa with Ricardo A. Setti (interview date Fall 1990)
Mario Vargas Llosa with Ricardo A. Setti (interview date Fall 1990)
SOURCE: An interview, translated by Susannah Hunnewell, in The Paris Review, Vol. 32, No. 116, Fall, 1990, pp. 46-72.
[In the following interview, Vargas Llosa speaks on several subjects, including authors and literature that have influenced him, the creative process, and the significance of writing in his life.]
[Setti]: You are a well-known writer and your readers are familiar with what you've written. Will you tell us what you read?
[Vargas Llosa]: In the last few years, something curious has happened. I've noticed that I'm reading less and less by my contemporaries and more and more by writers of the past. I read much more from the nineteenth century than from the twentieth. These days, I lean perhaps less toward literary works than toward essays and history. I haven't given much thought to why I read what I read…. Sometimes it's professional reasons....
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