Mario, from the suck to the rotten pot, by Javier Rioyo

«...Bárbola, the daughter of the baker, who usually gives me cakes with butter, because sometimes, I and she make the bellaquerias behind the door» Luis de Góngora From the shrimp to the chickpea takes the long journey of an exciting and passionate life. Mario Vargas Llosa knew how to speak, write, discuss, disagree and know how to eat. Mario, the chickpea, never forgot that boy from the house of Arequipa that one day ate a dish cooked by his ho…

In these days of mourning for the death Mario Vargas Llosa has been pathetic the attempt of some articulists to delink the literary dimension of the writer from his political passion. Anyone who knows minimally the life and work of the Hispanic Peruvian knows to what extent this is impossible. You cannot understand most of Vargas Llosa’s main works (The Bosses, Conversation in The Cathedral, History of Mayta or The Chivo Festival...) without his…

Mario Vargas Llosa was also critical of authoritarian leftist regimes, and that is what they do not forgive him on the left progress.