Mario Vargas Llosa

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• Mario Vargas Llosa was born into a middle-class family in Arequipa, Peru. His parents divorced when he was young, and he grew up with his mother and maternal grandparents in Bolivia, where his grandfather worked as a consular officer.

•  Mario Vargas Llosa developed an interest in poetry at an early age, which was a source of worry for his father, who enrolled him in a military academy. Nevertheless, he followed his literary instincts and became a writer. 

• He was also politically active and ran as a candidate in the Peruvian presidential election of 1990. Nowadays he spends most of his time in Madrid, but also lives in Peru. He has three children.

• Here in this blog i am sharing the point which i like form his interview for the worldpost by Michael Skafidas , a journalist and professor of comparative literature at City University of New York. He is a Peruvian writer, politician , journalist, essayist & college professor. 

• Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelist & essayist & one of the leading writer of his generation. He was awarded Novel prize for literature in 2010. His most recent Novel is " The Neighborhood".

•  In 2010 he won the Nobel prize in literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individuals resistance, revolt and defeat. And also won awards in 1994 for miguel de Cervantes prize.

• I agree with this point because As most of us consider literature as mirror of society them how can we expect that whatever is literature is must be idealist.

• Angles and Devils both are important for literature. Because Angels and Devils are the part of religion and literature. One is gives fear and one is gives protection to people. For religion both are equally.

•  But in literature Devils are more important than Angles according to me. Because in most of work we seen Devils are important. And they plays a lead role in work. In many work Devils are center. It creates suspense and horror in the story.

•  In the 1960s, Latin American literature experienced rapid development that has come to be called "El Boom". Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was at the heart of this explosion. His extensive, rich authorship consists mostly of novels, but also of plays, essays, literary criticisms, and journalism. 

• His works reflect his ardent love of storytelling. They are characterized by rich language and cover a range of genres - from autobiographical books and historical novels to erotic fiction and thrillers.

1)   "If you respect literature you must accept not only the very idealist, altruist vision of human beings but also the infernal vision of them."

2)  Georges Bataille said that in human beings, there are angels and devils. Sometimes the angels are important, but for literature, devils are important too.Literature is a testimony of what we want to hide in the real word.

3)  Sartre’s ideas — that words are acts and that you write things that could make a difference in history or solve problems.

4)  words are the main tools through we can create the history or make a difference in history or we can solve the problems. Writing is a main idea through which we can create a different kind of society, which is more freer, more liberal. Those were very influential ideas for a young writer.

5)  history and literature both are very closely from each other, they are different faces of a coin. The literary version of a historical part prevails over a historian's account. Literature is also close to living experiences.

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