![]() Eventually I thrust a copy of the book into his hands with the rather weak excuse that one might best understand one’s enemies when they are trying to do the same. ![]() ![]() footnote 1 This friend, who is not only a socialist but also a gay activist and adviser to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua, understandably shied away from a novel whose author is opposed to almost everything he holds dear. Some time ago I urged a friend from Lima to read Vargas Llosa’s Historia de Mayta-clumsily entitled The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta in the English edition-so that he might give me an insider’s opinion of the book’s treatment of the Peruvian revolutionary left over the last thirty years and decode some of the specific events and personalities.
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