eprintid: 10149247 rev_number: 8 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/14/92/47 datestamp: 2022-05-26 13:20:03 lastmod: 2022-05-26 13:20:03 status_changed: 2022-05-26 13:20:03 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Rossoni, Stefano title: ‘A Sinful Passion’: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Readings of Borges from 1964 to 2014 ispublished: inpress divisions: C01 divisions: J42 divisions: B03 divisions: UCL keywords: Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Reception, Literature, Politics, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, Deicide, Nove, lLiberalism note: © 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/). 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 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. date: 2022-05-24 date_type: published publisher: Informa UK Limited official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1958121 doi: 10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294 lyricists_name: Rossoni, Stefano lyricists_id: SROSS60 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Bulletin of Spanish Studies pagerange: 1-29 citation: Rossoni, Stefano; (2022) ‘A Sinful Passion’: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Readings of Borges from 1964 to 2014. Bulletin of Spanish Studies pp. 1-29. 10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294 <https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2022.2067294>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149247/1/A%20Sinful%20Passion%20Mario%20Vargas%20Llosa%20s%20Readings%20of%20Borges%20from%201964%20to%202014.pdf