Like almost all writers, Mario Vargas Llosa is an avid reader, he spent most of his life between reading and writing, so he is also a great connoisseur of universal literature, some books have marked him so much that he now recognizes them as texts that everyone should read before he dies. There are ten and here we will see what they are:
Vargas Llosa says of this book that: “The systematic beautification of life through its refraction in delicious sensitivities, capable of sucking from all objects and all circumstances the hidden beauty they possess, is what gives the world?Dalloway? His miraculous originality?.
- Regarding this work.
- The Nobel laureate states: “Humbert Humbert tells this story with the pauses.
- Suspense.
- False clues.
- Ironies and ambiguities of a narrator consumed in the art of rekindle the curiosity of the reader at all times.
- His story is outrageous but not pornographic.
- ” or even erotic.
- A constant joke about institutions.
- Trades and tasks since psychoanalysis?one of the things that bother Nabokov the most.
- Including education and family.
- Permeates Humbert Humbert’s dialogue ?.
About this work, Vargas Llosa points out: “Few stories have managed to express in such a synthetic and enslaving way the misunderstanding of individual metaphysical connotations and social projections? The movie? Apocalypse now? is based on this wonderful work of world literature.
It was one of the most controversial books of its time and remains highly controversial. On his subject, Vargas Llosa comments: “The character-narrator of Trunio de Concer is the great creation of the novel, Miller’s supreme success as a novelist”.
“That Henry, obscene and narcissistic, despective of the world, concerned only with his phallus and entrails, has first and foremost an incomparable verb, a Rabelesian vitality to transform the vulgar and the dirty into art, to spiritualize his physiology. It works with his great poetic voice, evil, sordidness, to give an aesthetic dignity to rudeness ?.
This book, written by another Nobel laureate, is one of Vargas Llosa’s favorites: “Along with the demons of his society and of his time, Canetti also used those who lived alone. Baroque emblem of a world about to explode , your novel is still a phantasmagorical sovereign creation in which the artist fuses his most intimate phobias and appetites with the shocks and crises that crack his world?
On The Great Gatsby, Vargas Llosa notes: “The whole novel is an intricate labyrinth of many doors and each of them serves to enter into your intimacy. Who opens this confession of the author of The Great Gatsby lends itself to a romantic story, of those that make you cry ?.
A large work that many undoubtedly came to thanks to cinema. A classic about which the Peruvian Nobel Laureate comments: “Without this disconcerting story that manipulates, stuns and finally breaks, the lives of the protagonists are not what they are. “
This is the central theme of the novel, which reappears, many times, in the course of its tumultuous adventures: the impotence of the individual in history, its fragility and its impotence when trapped in the whirlwind of the great event”.
Vargas Llosa is frank in his commentary on this work: “As in Lezama Lima, as in Alejo Carpentier, Baroque narrators who look alike because they have also built literary worlds of sculptural beauty, emancipated from temporal corrosion. The magic wand performs this trick by which fiction acquires its own face, a sovereign time different from chronological, is it this language ?.
“Opinions of a Clown,” his most famous novel, is a good testament to this scrupulous manic social sensibility. It is an ideological fiction, or as was said even when it appeared (1963), “compromised”. Does the story serve as a pretext for a very harsh and moralistic religious judgment of Catholicism and bourgeois society in postwar West Germany? says the sharp writer.
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