Giant of Latin American literature

Mario Vargas Llos, who died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was an exalted figure in Latin American literature and culture, which rarely evaded the dispute.

With more than 50 works on his name, many of which were widely translated, Vargas Lloos received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, when the judges dubbed him “God gifted narrator”. His images of authoritarianism, violence and machism, using a rich language and images, made him a star of the Latin American boom, which shone the center of attention on the continent.

At first, sympathizing with his left -wing ideas, he broke out with the revolutionary reasons for Latin America, eventually, as a result, he works unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency with the right party in 1990.

Vargas LLOS was born in 1936 to a middle -class family in Arekip in southern Peru. After his parents separated when he was an infant, he moved to Kochabamba in Bolivia with great -grandchildren. He returned to Peru at the age of 10 and six years later, which wrote his first play “Inca Escape.” He graduated from the University of LiMa, studied in Spain and later moved to Paris.

His first novel “Time of the Hero” was an accusation of corruption and abuse at the Peruvian military school. Written at a time when the country’s military owned a significant political and social force, it was published in 1962.

His power, threatening images were convicted by several Peruvian generals. One accused Vargas LLOS of “focused”.

It was based on the writer’s own time in the teenage age at the Leons Prada military academy, which he called in 1990 as “extremely traumatic experience”. His two years there forced him to see his country “as a violent society filled with bitterness consisting of social, cultural and racial factions in full opposition.” The school itself burned 1000 copies of the novel on its territory, said Vargas LLOS.

His experimental second novel “The Green House” (1966) was installed in the Peruvian desert and jungle, and described the Union of Scenuers, Missionaries and Soldiers founded around the brothel.

Both novels helped find the Latin American Boom in the 1960s and 1970s. The boom was characterized by experimental and obviously political works that reflected the continent into turmoil.

Its leading authors, who included Colombian friend Vargas Lloys and rival Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who for the first time in the world piano magical realism – became domestic names, and their works were read worldwide.

It is known that both authors have not talked to each other decades after Vargas LLOS struck Garcia Marquez in Mexican cinema in 1976. Messages on why Vargas LLOS hit his friend in Colombia.

Garcia Marquez’s friends said the dispute was spinning around Garcia Marquez’s friendship with the then wife of Vargas Patricia, but Vargas LLOS told the students at the University of Madrid in 2017, which in 2017 was compromised to their opposite views on Cuba and his communist leader.

They reconciled in 2007, and three years later, in 2010, Vargas LLOS was awarded the Nobel Prize – the first South American writer, elected for the literature prize after Gabriel Garcas Markas was honored in 1982.

Most of the work of Vargas Lloys are inseparable from instability and violence in some parts of Latin America in the second half of the 20th century, when the waves of revolutions and military administration survived in the region.

His novel conversations in the cathedral (1969) were noted for exposing how the Peruvian dictatorship of 1948-56 was under the control of Manuel Audre and eventually destroyed the life of ordinary people.

Like many intellectuals, Vargas LLOS supported Fidel Castro, but became disappointed with the Communist leader after the “approach” when the poet Gebert went to prison for criticizing the Cuban government in 1971.

In 1983, Vargas LLOS was appointed President of the Commission, which investigated the horrible murder in the village of Peruvian and eight journalists who became known as Uchurak’s massacre.

Peruvian officials claimed that the journalists were killed by the villagers of indigenous residents who were wrong with journalists for members of the Maoist brilliant group of guerrillas.

The commission report supported the official line, which led to the fierce criticism of Vargas Lloys by those who believed that the horrific nature of the crime and the horrific collective staff were a distinctive feature of the shameful anti -terrorist police, not by the signs of “indigenous violence”.

Going further to the political spectrum, in 1990, Vargas LLOS ran in the Peruvian presidency with the Frante Frante Coalition, on the right Frante Democracy on the Neoliberal Platform. He lost Alberto Fujimora, who continued to manage Peru for the next 10 years.

Despite the criticism that opposed him about the investigation of the massacre with Uchuraki, Vargas LLOS continued to disclose state terror and abuse of power through literature.

His novel “The Holiday of the Goat”, published in 2000, was aimed at the dictator Rafael Truhil, who ruled the Dominican Republic 31 years before the attempts in 1961. The novel received the praise of the Nobel Prize for attention to the “structure of power” and “Images of human resistance, uprising and defeat.”

Other works were adapted for a large screen. His aunt Julia’s book and a screenwriter, based on the first marriage, was adapted in 1990 to a Hollywood film, setting up tomorrow.

His later work covered the same variety of figures as the Irish nationalist Roger Casement (“Dream of Selt”, 2012).

He spent the last years of his life in Peru as well as Madrid.

The author appeared on the pages of the Spanish magazine “Gossip” Hola after he left his wife for 50 years in 2015 to be with the Spanish-Philippine Socialist Isabel, the mother of the popular Latin singer Enrique Iglesia.

He also continued to attract criticism for conflicting remarks.

In 2019, he was convicted of accusing him of increasing the killings of journalists in Mexico – more than 100 over the last decade – to expand the freedom of the press “, which allows journalists to speak about things that have not previously been allowed.” Although he also said that “narcotics trade plays a completely central role in all this”, some commentators thought that he did not express his condolences to the victims and their families.

And in 2018, he caused excitement when he called feminism “in the column for the Spanish newspaper El Pais,” the most decisive enemy of literature, trying to re -reing from machicism, many prejudices and immorality. “

He died in Lima on April 13 surrounded by his family and “in Mir”, his son Alvar Vargas LLOS announced.

With his death, the last of the great stars of the Latin American boom went.