Indeed, for the literary critic Gerald Martin, writing in 1987, Vargas Llosa was "perhaps the most successful ... certainly the most controversial Latin American novelist of the past twenty-five years".
Kritikern Gerald Martin skrev 1987 att Vargas Llosa var "kanske den framgångsrikaste tveklöst den kontroversiellaste latinamerikanska författaren under de senaste tjugofem åren".