On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction’s power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and
“?Que hago yo encaramado en esta percha de honor, yo que siempre he considerado los discursos como el mas terrorifico de los compromisos humanos?” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez?Los textos que Gabriel Garcia
The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity. Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by
