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Madrid. The writer Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) yesterday presented his new novel Five Corners (Alfaguara) at a packed press conference at the Casa de America in Madrid.
His romance with Isabel Preysler, ex-wife of singer Julio Iglesias, attracted not only journalists who usually cover the area of culture but also reporters of the magazines. The Nobel has become habitual protagonist of the Magazine Hello !, whose cover has appeared a few weeks ago posing with her new partner, which has drawn criticism from her children, who accuse him of being a frivolous.
Yesterday the Nobel Literature replied. “If I could choose I would not appear in Hello! I now appear in the magazine for reasons of a personal nature. If you have the recipe for not appear, dígamela. There are photographers on the door of my house and I feel secure. I can not sit for coffee, because there are photographers who pursue me, “said
From the magazine said it is.” frivolous but not sensationalist, “said not read, but stressed that it is a very interesting case because manages to sell a million copies every week just in Spain. “Now the newspapers plummet over the loss of readers. We face the horrifying prospect that newspapers will disappear and remain only digital. And you know how much it sells Hello! a week in Spain: one million, “he said. “It’s a cultural phenomenon of our time. It offers life in pink. It all are rich, everyone is happy, everyone attending activities that produce pleasure. There are millions of people who want this material to make them dream. novels were those that offered before. Before the novel was pink, “he said.
Five Corners, that takes its name from Lima neighborhood, set in the last week of the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) in a country horrified by the terrorism of Shining Path. And in her journalism it is one of the themes. The novel begins with a sexual encounter between two upper-class women: Chavela Marisa and her friend during a night in which no curfew in Peru. The two women continue their relationship while the husband of one of them, a businessman, arises move to live in Miami (EU) after being blackmailed by the director of a tabloid magazine photographs that appear in an orgy.
“I wanted to show how strong government men, as Vladimiro Montesinos (who was an adviser to Fujimori and his chief of intelligence), used to the more ruthless to kill his opponents tabloids” he said.
“Montesinos came to silence many people who was terrified of being involved in scandals. In Peru this dirty war was very effective and very dirty, and to my knowledge has not been used in any other dictatorship, “he said.
Vargas Llosa also spoke of journalism and journalists, who said responsibility that have. He said the first of the recipes is not lying. “It seems obvious to defend the truth lies, but it is not. Many times in the journalistic work we feel compelled to confuse the truth with falsehood. The reality is confusing but the first rule is to defend the truth, “he said.
In this regard he said that is a big difference with literature, because” the lie is lawful in the literature, but not in journalism “.
with more than twenty novels and numerous articles published, the writer said that the greatest satisfaction of his literary life, even more than the Nobel, was when he learned that would be part of the collection which reproduces the universal literary canon, the firmament of La Pleiade. “That has given me more joy than to be on the cover of Hello ” he said.
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