selfishness
‘A selfish, ignoble person’ – the dark side of the Nobel prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa
‘Why so many lies, so many deceptions, so much disloyalty?’ lamented his first wife, echoing the views of many others once close to the Peruvian novelist
Richard Ellmann: the man and his masks
James Joyce’s celebrated biographer seemed a mild man to fellow academics – but his ambition and steely self-belief made him a callous husband and father
