US EditionMario Vargas Llosa: The novelist who lectured Latin America
- Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa passed away at age 89.
- He gained international fame as part of the 1960s Latin American literary boom.
- His novel The Time of the Hero portrayed military academy life and scandalized generals upon publication.
- He unsuccessfully ran for Peruvian president in 1990 advocating privatization and layoffs.
- His strong defense of free markets earned him opponents among Latin America's left.
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SIRMAS PRESS.- Mario Vargas Llosa is no longer from this world, but his monumental work survives him as an imperishable flame. In fact, in one of his books, The Fire of the Imagination (compilation of articles, notes and essays on literature, cinema and art), the Nobel Prize in Peruvian Literature summarized the literary vocation as a “fire, nonconformism, rebellion.” For him, the writer is a “eternal poaching party.” What did Vargas Llosa mean …
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During his rich life, Mario Vargas Llosa committed only one mistake: trying a dangerous political career in a country, Peru, ravaged by the Marxist guerrillas of the Shining Path. His defeat in the presidential election of 1990, against the imperious Alberto Fujimori, rejoiced his readers who feared to lose one of the most sparkling writers of the 20th century. Born in Arequipa on 28 March 1936, Vargas Llosa grew up on a continent where the imag…
I met Porfirio Muñoz Ledo in Strasbourg, in his step as Ambassador of Mexico to the European Union. He rebuked me at the time about my closeness to the National Action Party (PAN). He told me that an intellectual, qualifier with whom I do not identify, should not commit to any ideology. “Look at me,” he stressed. He referred to his step because of how much political party existed in Mexico. “There is no worse thing than an organic intellectual […
Mario Vargas Llosa: The novelist who lectured Latin America
Fact and fiction circled each other in the works of Mario Vargas Llosa. Through realism, erotica, and even crude slang, the Peruvian novelist wove tales of political corruption and moral compromise. As part of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s—alongside Colombia's Gabriel García Márquez and Argentina's Julio Cortázar—he reached international fame, winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2010. But unlike most other regional giants, h…
What is more true: a dictator of flesh and blood or the one who invents a novel? Vargas Llosa had an answer. The post The truth of truths appeared first on Free Letters.
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