Mario Vargas Llosa wrote novels, essays and criticism about power, authoritarianism, sexuality, ambition and the political life of Latin America. The Time of the Hero is set in a military academy in Peru, where violence and rigid hierarchy shape a group of cadets after a theft and death expose the institution's internal codes. Conversation in the Cathedral uses a complex, nonlinear conversation to examine corruption and disillusionment under the dictatorship of Manuel Odría. The Feast of the Goat turns to the final days and legacy of Rafael Trujillo's regime in the Dominican Republic, while Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter mixes autobiography, romance and comic melodrama around radio serials in Lima. Vargas Llosa ranges from formally demanding political fiction to more playful novels. The Feast of the Goat is an accessible entry for readers of dictatorship fiction, while Conversation in the Cathedral is better suited to those wanting his more structurally complex work. Read more Less
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