SOURCE: "Social Commitment and the Latin American Writer," in World Literature Today, Vol. 52, No. 1, Winter, 1978, pp. 6-14.
In the following essay, Llosa explains the obligation Latin American writers feel to be not only artists but political activists as well.
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