The Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa Prize for Literature 2010 called on Tuesday in Madrid, Spain, to nationalism that encourages independence of Catalonia (northeastern Spain) as a malignant fiction that would materialize that place “marginal one country.”
The author of The Time of the Hero participated Tuesday in a forum of the Free and Equal platform, which introduced a manifesto against Catalan independence a, facing elections on September 27 that one of the applications driving the secession of Catalonia.
In the meeting at the Ateneo de Madrid they attended by many politicians and former politicians from various formations, writers, journalists, academics and citizens who joined the manifest.
“On September 27 the Catalans have the opportunity to decide If legitimize this evil fiction or reject “said the writer, who also has Spanish citizenship.
Before hundreds of people stated that the sovereignist option believes that Catalonia” Spain operates a colony, that censors their language, their prosperity and equality reign without Spain. Pure lies “.
” If there was a majority in favor of that Spain would suffer and Europe as well, but it would be a catastrophe for Catalonia, which would become a small country outside Europe and the euro, a country ruled by marginalized and poor, worse than those who govern now, “he said.
” Hopefully not, common sense , practical reality, it reappears sharply on September 27 and a majority of Catalans reject lies and choose truth, “he added.
Vargas Llosa recalled that spent five years of his life in Catalonia, in Barcelona, so means a lot to this community.
It also took the opportunity to remind his friend and literary agent who died on the eve Carmen Balcells, whom he described as “ Spanish, Catalan and European, of feeling and freedom. “
(With information from Notimex )
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