“Covid was an unpleasant experience because I started feeling very cold in my legs and suddenly, I started gasping, choking, breathing with great difficulty”Vargas Llosa said while presenting Buenos Aires Book Fair his most recent article, ‘The silent gaze’.
The 86-year-old writer, who lives in Madrid, recalled: was “too nervous” with a very high fever and something “gone” a “really traumatic” experience when he feels “out of breath” but hears that he needs to be accepted
I said stopped feeling “distressed” after being accepted and he said he even wrote an article while he was being hospitalized two weeks ago.
Latin American Left
In another part of his presentation, the author of ‘The City and the Dogs’ talked about politics, particularly the Latin American left. “fanatic and dogmatic”, “inflexible and blind to reality”.
“Fortunately there are exceptions, but it’s still a very dogmatic left. very closed to all ideas that might move him. “I have very little confidence in the Latin American left,” he said.
he claimed “It’s hard to be optimistic” Latin AmericaAccording to him, he is currently in one of his “worst periods” politically.
“The situation in Latin America could not be more tragic. It is very difficult to be optimistic about a Latin America paralyzed by new dictatorships or new dictatorships. about to plunge into a period of violent action again“That’s what’s going to happen in Central America, in Colombia, in this election, or tomorrow in Brazil,” he said.
Pérez Galdós, an “unequal” writer
In ‘The silent gaze’ Vargas Llosa profiles the novelistSpanish playwright, historian and politician Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) is based on an analysis of his novels, plays, and “National Chapters”, a series of stories covering Spanish history of the 19th century.
According to Vargas Llosa, Pérez Galdós is considered by many to be the greatest Spanish novelist after Spain. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), “fiction writer”, “basic novelist” but not a good columnistbecause he wrote many articles but they are hard to read.
He said that while in quarantine due to the covid-19 pandemic, Pérez Galdós read all his works from beginning to end, thus discovering an “unequal” author. “very important” works and others that are not “filler”.
The Peruvian writer was awarded the prize. Nobel Prize in Literature 2010Caution Pérez Galdós did not leave Spain and despite the fact that his dream has been translated into French, little has been read in Latin America, this has yet to happen.
“He tried to define the nineteenth century in various ways and largely succeeded. simple, light, entertaining novels written in a very accessible language for a wide audience. In this way, he made important historical facts available to the public. “It was very successful with ‘National Episodes’ but interestingly they weren’t aired outside of Spain,” he said.
The Peruvian writer appeared at the Buenos Aires Book Fair last Friday. Shared a discussion table with the Spanish writer Javier FencesPresented the “Mario Vargas Llosa” Ibero-American Short Story Biennial, an initiative introduced following an agreement between the President of Vargas Llosa and the El Libro Foundation, organizer of the expo in Buenos Aires.
Source: Informacion
