... Latin American authors: Peruvian José María Arguedas and Argentine Ricardo Piglia. In the same way that there is a notion of the literary peculiar to Latin America, there is a particular set of challenges that provide a unique shape to the Latin American democratic project. In the case of Piglia...

... are to the author's. Yet the fictional status of Mario's words is instrumental in the narrative structure of The Storyteller . If the similarities between Vargas Llosa and the narrator abound, so too do allusions to Peruvian novelist José María Arguedas via the figure of Zuratas—an analogy complicated by the way...