Now, over the years, it is difficult to imagine that Mario Vargas Llosa had had another vocation that was not a writer. What would have happened if his authoritarian father had not enrolled in Leoncio Prado Military Academy to make him a grown man? Do not have sprouted inside the urgency of the spoilers that removes the filth with pen set? Hard to imagine the reality of contemporary Peru without 'The City and the Dogs' initiation novel Nobel Prize for Literature 2010.
If Vargitas, the star of "Conversation in the Cathedral" (novel by Peruvian author summit), had not been asked over and over again, "When is fucked Peru," Vargas Llosa might not have unfolded in the political facet in search of solutions for a country, yours, with whom he has had a long love-hate relationship.
Who knew that today, two decades after Vargas Llosa lost the presidential election to Alberto Fujimori, his voice and his opinions are a moral reference in an election in which Fujimori ghosts reappear in the shape of Keiko, the daughter of an agent who is in jail for violation of human rights and corruption offenses.
As is usual with him, shortly after receiving the Nobel in Stockholm, said that his eventual victory "would be a catastrophe for the country." For her, however, his claims are the result of resentment of a rival who has never surpassed his father's victory. The truth is that the 'was Fujimori', which came to power thanks to the liar and nebulous slogan "honesty, technology and labor," which remain are the aftermath of a car coup, the terrorist war against the winding path Bright and looting the public treasury.
It is true that Vargas Llosa, head of the centrist FREDEMO, which was created after the momentum of its "Freedom Movement" against the disaster of the first populist government of Alan Garcia, did not know and could not convince the electorate in 1990 with severe recipes Hayekiano liberal court.
In the eyes of many, was the elitist outsider who spoke in the public squares of the need to reduce the civil service empleomania mammoth to feed a legion of families. The 'Chinese' Fujimori swept against a candidate who wielded the inconvenient truth lies. The novelist recounts the bittersweet time in her memoir A Fish in the water.
Twenty years later, Fujimori is serving 25 years in prison and his opponent has received top honors for his monumental literary career. Touché, in the language of the swordsmen. How far are the days when books were burned by Mario subversive and unpatriotic in the courtyard of the military school where he sparked the writer, his disagreements with the first stage presidential Alan García's attempt to nationalize the Bank; open warfare with Fujimori, who made him persona non grata in his own country and tried to snatch him citizenship.
The killjoys determined to confront the illusions of power. Today the intellectual and moral stature of Vargas Llosa do not shake the political stumbling back and forth from the Palace of Miraflores. Contrary to what critics say about him, true to its spirit of freedom, the author and a columnist sharp has the virtues of pragmatism, dialogue and consistency, supported the second nomination of a tamed Alan Garcia in 2006 provided that not advance the radicalism of Ollanta Humala.
However, last year did not hesitate to castigate the APRA leader for trying to pass a law that trials have been freed from military personnel accused of human rights abuses. Given the international eco took its protest, the government immediately abandoned the initiative. In these new presidential elections Vargas Llosa has not hidden his sympathy for the candidate Alejandro Toledo, who is profiled in the polls, and noted that if a second round would decide if "the country's democracy is threatened" .
We will never know if Mario would have been as formidable as head of state as it has been as a writer. But no doubt it is an engaged intellectual whose worldwide fame has not lounging beyond good and evil. In a press conference after receiving the Nobel, Vargas Llosa said excitedly, "I am Peruvian and Peru." His words sum up a stormy love story with a happy ending. 
If Vargitas, the star of "Conversation in the Cathedral" (novel by Peruvian author summit), had not been asked over and over again, "When is fucked Peru," Vargas Llosa might not have unfolded in the political facet in search of solutions for a country, yours, with whom he has had a long love-hate relationship.
Who knew that today, two decades after Vargas Llosa lost the presidential election to Alberto Fujimori, his voice and his opinions are a moral reference in an election in which Fujimori ghosts reappear in the shape of Keiko, the daughter of an agent who is in jail for violation of human rights and corruption offenses.
As is usual with him, shortly after receiving the Nobel in Stockholm, said that his eventual victory "would be a catastrophe for the country." For her, however, his claims are the result of resentment of a rival who has never surpassed his father's victory. The truth is that the 'was Fujimori', which came to power thanks to the liar and nebulous slogan "honesty, technology and labor," which remain are the aftermath of a car coup, the terrorist war against the winding path Bright and looting the public treasury.
It is true that Vargas Llosa, head of the centrist FREDEMO, which was created after the momentum of its "Freedom Movement" against the disaster of the first populist government of Alan Garcia, did not know and could not convince the electorate in 1990 with severe recipes Hayekiano liberal court.
In the eyes of many, was the elitist outsider who spoke in the public squares of the need to reduce the civil service empleomania mammoth to feed a legion of families. The 'Chinese' Fujimori swept against a candidate who wielded the inconvenient truth lies. The novelist recounts the bittersweet time in her memoir A Fish in the water.
Twenty years later, Fujimori is serving 25 years in prison and his opponent has received top honors for his monumental literary career. Touché, in the language of the swordsmen. How far are the days when books were burned by Mario subversive and unpatriotic in the courtyard of the military school where he sparked the writer, his disagreements with the first stage presidential Alan García's attempt to nationalize the Bank; open warfare with Fujimori, who made him persona non grata in his own country and tried to snatch him citizenship.
The killjoys determined to confront the illusions of power. Today the intellectual and moral stature of Vargas Llosa do not shake the political stumbling back and forth from the Palace of Miraflores. Contrary to what critics say about him, true to its spirit of freedom, the author and a columnist sharp has the virtues of pragmatism, dialogue and consistency, supported the second nomination of a tamed Alan Garcia in 2006 provided that not advance the radicalism of Ollanta Humala.
However, last year did not hesitate to castigate the APRA leader for trying to pass a law that trials have been freed from military personnel accused of human rights abuses. Given the international eco took its protest, the government immediately abandoned the initiative. In these new presidential elections Vargas Llosa has not hidden his sympathy for the candidate Alejandro Toledo, who is profiled in the polls, and noted that if a second round would decide if "the country's democracy is threatened" .
We will never know if Mario would have been as formidable as head of state as it has been as a writer. But no doubt it is an engaged intellectual whose worldwide fame has not lounging beyond good and evil. In a press conference after receiving the Nobel, Vargas Llosa said excitedly, "I am Peruvian and Peru." His words sum up a stormy love story with a happy ending.
No comments:
Post a Comment