The Realist’s Crucial Transition: From Conversation in the Cathedral to Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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1 Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral, trans. Gregory Rabassa (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005), 3.

2 Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversation in the Cathedral, trans. Gregory Rabassa (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005), 220.

3 Mario Vargas Llosa, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, trans. Ronald Christ and Gregory Kolovakos (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990), 3.

4 Mario Vargas Llosa, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, trans. Ronald Christ and Gregory Kolovakos (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990), 7.

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José Miguel Oviedo

José Miguel Oviedo (1934-2019) was a Peruvian literary critic and writer, who taught for three decades at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many books are Mario Vargas Llosa: la invención de una realidad (1970), the four-volume Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana (1991–2001), the memoir Una locura razonable (2014; A Reasonable Madness), and several volumes of short stories. This issue includes a memorial piece on Oviedo, by Alonso Cueto.