The tribute to Vargas Llosa brings together friends, readings and anecdotes about his figure and works at the Madrid book fair
The American pavilion Ibero had a premiere Like praise. His first baptism in this 84th edition of the Madrid book fair was the tribute that his editorial, Alfagiara, He made his illustrious son Mario Vargas Llosa, Death last April at the age of 89.
This picture that the fair presented as one of its most interesting news has brought together personality in the world of literature, such as Javier Cercas, Manuel Rivas, Rosa Montero, Juan Cruz, Claudia Piñeiro, Santiago Roncaglilo, among others, and also for essayists, critics and journalists, who have built their particular loyalty to Vargas Llosa on the basis of several titles of his great work.
Animated and coordinated by the publisher Pilar Reyes, everyone has read fragments of books chosen for this day, but which are only a connection in the long chain with which the entire narrative of the Peruvian ispanic has tied them His influences, styles and personal relationships.
AS, Traveresuras of the Bad Girl, Pantalon and visitors, the war of the end of the world, fish in water Among the other texts, they have been equipped with new voices, which they read with admiration The unforgettable prose of a huge writer, as the participants described Vargas Llosa.
The actor Pedro Casablanc, who led to the theater The tales of the plague, Based on the Decamerón de Bocaccio, he sent a video in which he read some pages of The war of the end of the worldone of the most acclaimed novels by Llosa, On the Brazilian conflict of Canudo responsible for a group of poor peasants of the Amazon.
Observer, travel, sociable, curious, converser and debate consumed, Vargas Llosa forged a network of affections with his personality, which were seen this Saturday at the book Fair. The readers of his work told the anecdotes, such as that “illegal” cover of the book that Claudia Piñeiro de Pantaleón had purchased, or its ease of swimming in the waters of Emma Bovary as if she were talking about itself.
Vargas Llosa, CREIndisputable adors of the Latin American boom so called He left posters a vast essay and a journalistic work, which his Spanish publishing house, Alfagiara, is collecting in different volumes.
Alfagiara has already taken three and will soon eliminate the fourth volume. Subjects of reflection Otherwise such as Iraq, Sartre, Camus, Flaubert, The Language of Passion, Utopia, The Journalist Trade… they also crossed the intellectual seminar of those who conquered the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, the latest writer of Spanish distinction that reached it.
