The news comes from Stockholm. The Swedish Academy finally decided to give the Nobel Prize for Literature 2010 to Mario Vargas Llosa . was the only award that had been given to the author of The Feast of the Goat . The writer has every merit Arequipa for the coveted award. Let me highlight three. First, the unique quality of such novels as Conversation in the Cathedral , The green house or War doomsday , especially in regard to masterly handling of narrative structures and knowledge of the techniques of the contemporary novel. A great reader of Flaubert and the American novel, he learned to take the realistic belief emphasizing the idea that the novel is a total art covering different scenarios and situations: he has some poetry, drama and epic. The writer weaves lies metaphorically illuminate understanding of social and political reality of Latin America, which is why it is always a maverick, a true vulture feeds on a society in crisis.
The second is that handled the trial with invaluable skill. Countercurrent polemicist, most famous arsonist in the sense of the word, Vargas Llosa is a Democrat who championed the culture of sacrificing freedom, even taking personal interest and, if necessary, the political cost of making a defense of tolerance and search for consensus in a society like from Peru, where corruption is common currency and careerism and practices.
The third is the discipline and perseverance as a foundation for creative work. Vargas Llosa, very young, he realized that the literature is not a mere hobby or a despicable game of cards, but an activity that involves the whole of existence. The writer is not born, but the newspaper is run. Never mind the muses, but the chisel the word day after day. For these three reasons (there are many more, of course), today celebrated the Nobel Prize for universal Peru.
