@article{discovery10149247,
         journal = {Bulletin of Spanish Studies},
           month = {May},
            year = {2022},
           title = {'A Sinful Passion': Mario Vargas Llosa's Readings of Borges from 1964 to 2014},
       publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
            note = {{\copyright} 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).},
           pages = {1--29},
        keywords = {Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reception, Literature, Politics, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, Deicide, Nove, lLiberalism},
          author = {Rossoni, Stefano},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294},
        abstract = {This article examines Vargas Llosa's fifty-year-long conflicted fascination for Jorge Luis Borges. The young and leftist Vargas Llosa disregarded Borges as the embodiment of a disengaged intellectual, while the mature Vargas Llosa celebrates him as the emblem of cosmopolitanism that should inspire globalized societies today. Focusing on different stages of Vargas Llosa's intellectual biography, I examine how his interpretations of Borges are informed by readings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Garc{\'i}a M{\'a}rquez and Miguel de Cervantes. Considering the intersections of political engagement and literary theories, I study how Vargas Llosa incorporates Borges' intellectualism into his fiction and imbues it with eroticism.}
}