Lima’s ballot, Dhaka’s echo: Vargas Llosa’s political foray
In the brittle dawn of 1990, as Peru’s economy haemorrhaged and Shining Path guerrillas carved their nihilism into the Andes, Mario Vargas Llosa, a man who had spent decades wrestling dictators and desire onto the page, staged a rebellion not with words, but with a ballot. His presidential campaign was a surrealist subplot ripped from … Read more