The Search for Utopia and its Consequences: Political Commitment in Historia de Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa and The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
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2013
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This article compares the political evolution of Graham Greene and Mario
Vargas Llosa, concretely through the analysis of their novels The Honorary Consul
(1973) and Historia de Mayta (1984). We examine how, on the one hand, Greene values
positively the search for a utopian society of León Rivas, as a means of founding a
fairer society. On the other hand, Vargas Llosa, totally disillusioned with his former
belief in Socialism, condemns that same search by Alejandro Mayta, since from his
point of view, searching a utopian society only leads to failure and death.
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Graham Greene, Mario Vargas Llosa, Utopia, politics, Socialism, disloyalty