Mario Vargas Llosa vs. Jean-Paul Sartre
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936 – 2025
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom.
"Writing stories was not easy. When they were turned into words, projects withered on the paper and ideas and images failed. How to reanimate them? Fortunately, …"
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, and activist.
"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."