Louisiana Literature

Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Makes Citizens Critical

May 21, 2021 Louisiana Channel Season 1 Episode 22
Louisiana Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa: Literature Makes Citizens Critical
Show Notes

Meet Peruvian Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa (b.1936), who talks about his literary beginnings and about the inherent power good literature has to make readers aware of another reality: “What we call civilisation is a process that started with this dissatisfaction with the world as it is.

Mario Vargas Llosa was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in June 2019.