Vargasiosa's Avowed Politics, He's Neither or Foul in That Sense

There is more continuity between the fiction and his avowed politics than you might think, i think. As a young man, he was very much to the left, wasn't him? And he was, was he marxus lenenist? You can't be a university student in latin america at that time and not be reading marks. So there are some reasons that he gives for taking a kind of right word turn. But they diverged politically even before that end. Marquez became very close with castro, and vargas osa veered increasingly to the right. He always cites the repression of writers under the castro regime as a kind of turning point for him