The Madrid Book Fair tributes Mario Vargas Llosa: “It is already a classic that will continue to illuminate the world” | Culture | EUROtoday

“I learned to read at age five and it is the most important thing that happened to me in life,” mentioned an appointment on the display screen, subsequent to the effigy of Mario Vargas Llosa. It has been the presence that has presided over the tribute of the Madrid Book Fair, this Saturday, to the Hispanic Peruvian Prize, who died on April 13 at 89. Outside the Ibero -American pavilion, the studying lots ran to the cubicles below intense warmth and queued to get a bottle of water.

Pilar Reyes, editorial director of the Penguin Random House Literary Division started (the place the Alphaguara publishing home is framed, which publishes the creator’s works), who emphasised the author’s relationship with Madrid. “In this city it was his first European experience, and it is the city in which he would end up living. He was the protagonist of his writing process, so today we also celebrated Mario’s relationship with Madrid.”

Next, a number of writers learn fragments of their work. The director of the Fair started, Eva Orúe, though with an extraliterary matter: “I want to apologize for what happened yesterday [en referencia al cierre de la Feria por la tarde por las condiciones meteorológicas]a fair that starts by closing its doors is a strange fair. The world fell apart. I trust that everything happens from now on as it has to happen. ”Shortly after it was identified that it needed to be opened within the afternoon with an hour of delay, at 18.00, resulting from excessive warmth. Time, both by warmth, wind or rain, it’s normally the information that this free occasion springs this free occasion: each of the time and books are spoken, and the closures generate controversy and battle.

Let’s return with Vargas. The journalist Juan Cruz, who was his editor and interviewed him in numerous events participated. “Years ago I accompanied Vargas Llosa the first time he decided to come to the fair, after many indecisions,” he recalled. “A friend has asked me to read one thing, another friend another, and I’m going to read another,” he joked earlier than reciting a fraction of the amount of memoirs The fish within the water.

The author and tutorial of the RAE Javier Cercas recalled the “shock“That she produced studying, with solely 17 years, of The metropolis and canines. “I have read everything that Vargas Llosa wrote. This novel, in 1979, I have the book marked with the date. It is a masterpiece, one of the best novels of our language. It deals with some teenagers in a military school, such as to which Vargas Llosa was sent by his father, with whom he always got along very badly, so that a man was made, to straighten him, because he was a child of his mother. This book was a child shock For me, and I suppose it will be for each person who reads it. ”

The critic Jordi Gracia (hooked up to the course of El País) was fastened on the essay aspect of Vargas Llosa, via The perpetual orgy: “A passionate essay on Madame Bovary And Gustave Flaubert, that Vargas snatched compulsively and made him immerse in the private life of both Flaubert and Bovary, as well as in his own life. ”The author Manuel Rivas made reference to the“ fertile look and the sincere hand ”, as mentioned of the painters of the flamenco college, to explain the Nobel Malaparte: “Contemporary authors do not read each other, they are monitored.”

Rosa Montero, Santiago Roncagliolo, Carlos Granés (who aroused hilarity with a fraction the place Vargas Llosa speaks of the connection of a Rastafari with marijuana), amongst different writers, and a few individuals of the general public. Or actor Pedro Casablanc, who participated in The tales of the plaguethe play wherein the author himself acted, a recreation of the tales of the Outbreak of Bocaccio. A “corsair raid” on this planet of interpretation, within the phrases of Pilar Reyes.

Claudia Piñeiro recalled an anecdote when she participated within the jury of the Alfaguara Award presided by Vargas Llosa and took a replica of pocket of Pantaleon and guests. The Nobel was stunned: it was a really uncommon version that had needed to withdraw from bookstores. The cowl picture, the place some girls got here out, had been purchased in a picture financial institution. But it had been taken with out permission by the photographer, which induced the stupor of the showing events once they noticed their picture, in order that they requested their withdrawal. “Now I keep the copy with much love: first, because it has a prohibited cover; second, because it is signed by Mario Vargas Llosa.”

“Mario Vargas Llosa’s novels are monuments of the genre, and his thought is totally alive,” concluded Pilar Reyes, “it is already a classic that we can continue visiting and will continue to illuminate the world.”