When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa-Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual-answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays.

When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas LlosäPeruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual¿answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays.