The Bad Girl
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as ‘Lily’ in Llama in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting ‘Comrade Arlette’, an activist en route to Cuba, and becomes his lover, al….Read More
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