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Quotation by Mario Vargas Llosa
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International Herald Tribune (Paris, April 1, 1988)the narrator, in The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984, trans. 1986)The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984, trans. 1986)Independent on Sunday (London, May 5, 1991)International Herald Tribune (Paris, October 23, 1990)Related Subjects
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), Peruvian novelist. The narrator, in The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, ch. 9 (1984, trans. 1986).
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