BOOK REVIEW: MARIO VARGAS LLOSA DIALOGUES WITH GABRIEL LIICEANU: FACES OF EVIL IN TODAY’S WORLD & FICTION AS A VITAL NECESSITY

The latest volume published by Humanitas in October 2024 and translated by Ileana Scipione and Olivia Petrescu contains two dialogues between Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Liiceanu: “Faces of Evil in Today’s World” (which began at Romexpo on September 20th 2005 and continued a day later at the press conference organised by the Cervantes Institute in Bucharest and the Romanian Cultural Institute) and “Fiction as a Vital Necessity” (which took place at the Babeș–Bolyai University in Cluj on May 21st 2013).