“Five Corners,” a novel that combines historical narrative foci with annoyance that caused the media persecution for his romance with Isabel Preysler, the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa confirms its sharp pulse irony while fixed . position on the trivialization of the media, corruption and weak democracies
Vargas Llosa has decided to return to fiction with a mixture of thriller and social portrait that puts the focus on bad journalism, – “the yellow and gossipy “- and where sex appears as the resource that puts the essential pepper to this network set in the Lima district of the Five Corners, which in the last century was axis of a cultural and bohemian renaissance, and today is a dangerous area.
“you always thought Vargas Llosa argues, that journalism could be threatened by political power, military or economic, but nobody could have thought that journalism could be threatened by the frivolity, by irresponsible journalism or chismográfico, which is the representative form of this era. ”
I do not know know how much of the original skeleton of this new piece of fiction the author of “The Green House” is part of the side effects left by her divorce from Patricia The woman with whom he shared more than twenty years of his life and its contiguous relationship with Preysley, but in any case the issue of sensationalism information is several years a recurring concern for the writer, but until now had never been direct focus of this journalistic variant.
“the danger comes from within journalism driven by a need for a public increasingly interested in entertainment than information. this border is over. the sensationalism and entertainment have become the dominant values. and journalism is a victim of that. it’s one of the great problems of our time, “said Vargas Llosa.
” Five corners “(Alfaguara) intertwines the usual narrative pillars of writer-the casualization of Peruvian society , journalism, power and eroticism in an agile frame supported by a triple narrative hook: the story of a millionaire who is blackmailed by some compromising pictures, the lesbian relationship between his wife with her best friend and finally the itinerary of a old reciter of poems that ends involved in this conflict
the landscape that feeds the emotional ups and downs of the characters is Peru 90s, shaken by a wave of kidnappings and violence of the Shining Path.: the curfew imposed by the government forces Chavela to stay overnight at the home of her friend Marisa, a decision that will be the prelude to a passion that work as the trigger of history.
While friends explore their instincts, the husband of one of them, the mining entrepreneur Henry Cardenas, received in his office the director of a weekly known, that comes to extort money for their participation in an orgy in which participated some time.
From this anecdote describes ways and hobbies high Peruvian society, Vargas Llosa describes the last months of the presidency of Alberto Fujimori and his henchman, Vladimiro Montesinos, while society assists impassive to increase violence, escalating corruption and deterioration of democracy.
“One of the normal perspiration of that time was the sexual incentive, sex appeared as freedom and enjoyment in view of the rest life was over, “defined Vargas Llosa during the presentation of the novel in Spain about the components of this lesbian relationship actually is almost a pretext to analyze the political and social scene in those years.
“Fujimori used the press as a weapon to eliminate his enemies. the powers wanted, always, have journalism on their part. in democracy there is a diversity that can collate information and seek the truth. that is their superiority” , also said the writer during the meeting with the press
Vargas Llosa meet the March 28, 80 years and held a long-held dream. the publication of two volumes, with eight of his works, in the prestigious French collection La Pleiade “, which houses the canon of world literature.
. Source: Telam
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