Mario Vargas Llosa's intellectual transformations, from socialism to pragmatism, and liberalism, are reflected in his political and historical fiction. From Sartrean anti-authoritarianism in La ciudad y los perros to an increasingly liberal world view in Cinco esquinas, El héroe discreto, or Travesuras de la niña mala, this monograph documents the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner's philosophical and literary journey.

Friedrich Ahnert, born 1986 in Berlin, has studied Romance Studies, Political Science and Latin American Studies at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and the University of Nottingham (UK). After cultural and permanent stays in Barcelona, Paris, Peru and the United States - as well as a longer stay as a translator for English in Munich - Friedrich Ahnert has just finished his dissertation on the reflection of the changing political world view (from socialism to liberalism) in the political and historical fiction of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. He is a member of the German Hispanic Association (DHV), the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland (AHGBI), the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), and member of the German Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ).