%0 Journal Article %T Vargas Llosa y la historia de las ideas: avatares de un esquema %A Corral %A Wilfrido H %J Cuadernos del CILHA %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X this article defines the coordinates of vargas llosa's thought, arguing that his ideas, obviously inseparable from his narrative and the larger western context, are not the subject of careful scrutiny. the author's ideological consistency lies particularly in his purported "conservative turn," and generally in the self-criticism and independence that make him in part of a handful of influential public latin american intellectuals in the west. %K history of ideas %K public intellectuals %K liberal western thought. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1852-96152009000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en