Vargas Llosa, Václav Havel... and Churchill's curious case: writers who also made history in politics

Rafael Belaunde Llosa writes that on April 13, those who were already eternal left for eternity, those who were already immortal died. Mario Vargas Llosa

In the week of his death, the snapshots made, with analogue camera, to the Nobel Prize in Literature; and that moment of 2016, counted by its author. "It is the portrait with the brightest darkness that has ever made" Read

The remains of Mario Vargas Llosa were cremated this Monday in an intimate ceremony, as desired by the Nobel Prize in Literature. His death has been news in the middle of the world, proof of the importance of his work. Together with Cortázar, García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes was a fundamental part of the Latin American 'boom' that revolutionized no longer Spanish literature but universal literature. Vargas Llosa lived for literature, of that th…

Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Mario Vargas Llosa went down at 6.45 a.m. to the door of his home, a bright attic with book upholstered walls and a glass façade that looks at the sea. There he was picked up with his car by an old friend. They drove about 15 minutes down the mall until they reached a private club. They went down to the beach and talked walking. The walks lasted a half hour and talked about everything about politics. The rou…

Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday, April 13, 2025, 13 years after the disappearance of Carlos Fuentes, 11 years after that of Gabriel García Márquez and 41 years after the Parisian Julio Cortázar born in Argentina that we love all the women who aspire to be La Maga. Vargas Llosa was the last of the exponents of the Latin American boom. There comes a moment in life when one realizes that the only public characters, the only creators, men and wome…

Mario Vargas Llosa died on Sunday, April 13, 2025, 13 years after the disappearance of Carlos Fuentes, 11 years after that of Gabriel García Márquez and 41 years after the Parisian Julio Cortázar born in Argentina that we love all the women we aspire to be La Maga. Vargas Llosa was the [...] La entrada Goodbye to Mario Vargas Llosa / Elena Poniatowska aparece primero en La Jornada de Oriente.