“Five Corners”, return to the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa – AméricaEconomía.com

The book takes its name from a Lima neighborhood that has been intensely immersed in the vagaries of history.

With the idea of ​​making a stark portrait of the years of government of Alberto Fujimori, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa returns to the novel. “Five Corners” is the title of the book, according underlines its author, also seeks to pay tribute to the freedom of the press to establish a critique of sensationalistic media.

The story focuses on blackmail an engineer by a “sensationalist” newspaper and a murder organized by the government. The novel of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 is also full of eroticism, as it tells the sexual adventure of two women of Lima’s upper class since they must sleep in the same bed because of a curfew.

for Vargas Llosa eroticism it is a symptom of high civilization. “In love there is not bored, it requires creativity, in addition to an investment of time and culture that becomes art. Primitive people saw him as an animal vent and culture has transformed it into something complex and rich, “said the press former presidential candidate.

” Five Corners “(Alfaguara), which launched last Thursday, March 3 in Spain and Latin America, takes its name from a Lima neighborhood that has been immersed in the ups and downs of the history of Peru.

Vargas Llosa , which 28 turns 80 in January, warns that this novel is not politics as -for example- “Conversation in the cathedral” (1969), but rather social, which is spoken in part of the “feel human “during the Fujimori administration.

in his new work the writer has left all the attention to the story. Manages a traditional structure, plus it has devoted special attention to the use of language, his narrative.

“I want very much to journalism, it is an activity that excites me, and I really saddens drift that has come to take our time. In many cases has become a form of entertainment that has no limits, use the scandal and is based on snooping on human garbage, “said the author during the presentation of the book in the Casa de America in Madrid Spain.