TY - INPR AV - public TI - ?A Sinful Passion?: Mario Vargas Llosa?s Readings of Borges from 1964 to 2014 Y1 - 2022/05/24/ UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294 EP - 29 ID - discovery10149247 N2 - 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 García Márquez 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. SP - 1 N1 - © 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/). KW - Jorge Luis Borges KW - Mario Vargas Llosa KW - Reception KW - Literature KW - Politics KW - Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto KW - Deicide KW - Nove KW - lLiberalism PB - Informa UK Limited JF - Bulletin of Spanish Studies A1 - Rossoni, Stefano ER -