Giant of Latin American literature

Mario Vargas Llosa, who died at the age of 89 in his Peru, was almost not far from the debate in Latin American literature and culture.

VARGAS LLOSA has been widely translated into more than 50 works in its own name, and Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010 when the judge called him “a divine talented storyteller.” Using abundant languages ​​and images, his description of authoritarianism, violence and Miss Mo became a star of the Latin America Boom Literature Movement, which focuses on the world on the continent.

At first, he felt compassion for left -wing ideas, and he was disillusioned with the revolutionary cause of Latin America and eventually failed to position the central right party and President Peru.

Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in a middle class family in the Arrequipa in southern Peru. After his parents broke up, he moved to Ko Chababa, Bolivia, with his great -grandchildren. He returned to Peru and six years after 10 years old and used the first play, Inca. He graduated from Lima University and studied in Spain and later moved to Paris.

His first novel, The Time of the Hero, prosecuted corruption and abuse in the Peruvian army. It was published in 1962 that the army of this country was recorded when it was important to wield important political and social power.

The powerful and threatening image was blamed by several Peruvians. One claimed that Vargas Llosa had a “lush heart”.

It was based on his own time of the teenager of Leoncio Military Academy, and in 1990 he described it as “very traumatic experience.” For two years, he saw his kingdom as “a violent society full of bitter taste and consisting of a complete opposite social, cultural and racial faction.” VARGAS LLOSA insisted that the school itself burned 1,000 copies of the novel.

His second novel The Green House (1966) was built in the Peruvian Desert and the Jungle and described the alliance of pimps, missionaries and soldiers based on prostitutes.

These two novels helped to discover the Latin American Boom Literature Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The boom is characterized by an experimental and explicit political work that reflects the continent in confusion.

Major writers, including Vargas Llosa’s Colombian friends and competitors Gabriel García Márquez (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who pioneered a cartoon magic realist style) became home name, and their works were read worldwide.

Famously, the two writers did not talk to each other for decades after Vargas Llosa punched the García Márquez in the 1976 Mexican movie theater. Report on why Vargas Llosa punches another punch of a Colombian friend.

The friends of the García MárQuewez were disputes centered on friendship with their wife Patricia at the time of this dispute, but Vargas Llosa was opposed to Cuba and its communist leader Fidel Castro to students at the University of Madrid in 2017. It depends on the opinion.

They were reconciled in 2007 and in 2010, Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize. Since the Gabriel García Márquez was honored in 1982, the first South American writer for the literary award.

Many of Vargas Llosa’s work cannot be separated from the instability and violence in some areas of Latin America in the late 20th century.

His novel conversation in Cathedral (1969) was congratulated by how the Peruvian dictatorship of Manuel ODRía controlled and eventually ruined the lives of ordinary people.

Like many intellectuals, Vargas Llosa supported Fidel Castro, but in 1971, when the poet Heberto Padilla was imprisoned for criticizing the Cuban government, he was disillusioned with a communist leader under “Padilla Affair.”

In 1983, Vargas Llosa was appointed chairman of the committee who investigated the terrible murder in the village of eight journalists Peruvian andes, which was known as the Uchuraccay massacre.

Peruvian officials insisted that journalists were killed by the Aboriginal villagers who were mistaken for the Maoist SHINing Path Guerrilla Group.

The committee’s report led to the fierce criticism of Vargas Llosa by believing that the terrible personality of crime and the terrible cutting on the body were characterized by the infamous anti -terrorist police rather than the signs of “Aboriginal violence.”

In 1990, Vargas Llosa went further in the political spectrum and ran for the French Democratic Union and the President of Peru on the neoliberal platform. He was on Alberto Fujimori. He has dominated Peru for 10 years.

Despite the criticism of the Uchuraccay massacre, Vargas Llosa continued to expose the nation’s fear and power abuse through literature.

His novel The Feast of the Goat’s festival, published in 2000, focused on Rafael Trujillo, a dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic for 31 years until his assassination in 1961, and this novel “Power structure” and “individual resistance, rotation and defeat of the Nobel Prize. I was praised with interest in the image.

Other works were suitable for large screens. Based on his first marriage to his aunt Julia, the artist was applied to the 1990 Hollywood feature film TUNE in Tomorrow.

His later work deals with various characters such as Roger Casement (The Dream of the Celt, 2012).

He spent his lifetime in Madrid as well as Peru.

After leaving his wife for 50 years in 2015, the author appeared on the page of the Spanish gossip magazine HOLA, and was with Spanish-Filipino Socialite Isabel Freysler, the mother of popular Latin singer Enrique Iglesias.

He also continued to criticize the controversial remarks.

In 2019, he was accused of accusing Mexican journalists’ murder of more than 100 for the expansion of speech freedom. He also said, “Drug trafficking plays an absolute central role in all of this.” Some commentators did not express their sympathy to the victims and their families.

And in 2018, he called the Spanish newspaper El País when he called “the most decisive enemy literature,” he tried to avoid pollution from Machismo, many prejudice and immorality. “

He was surrounded by his family in Lima on April 13 and died of “peaceful”.

His death, the great stars of the last Latin American boom disappeared.