Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa today became the world premiere of Five Corners , his new novel, in a case against the tabloid journalism and, incidentally, against the pink press, in which he has a place Highlights since it came to light his relationship with Isabel Preysler.
“I want very much to journalism, is an activity that excites me, and I really saddens drift that has come to take our time. in many cases it has become in a form of entertainment that has no limits, use the scandal and is based on snooping on human garbage, “he said at the Casa de America in Madrid.
the Nobel Prize for Literature, the 28th he turns 80, returns to bookstores with a novel set in the last years of the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori, a regime that knew how to use as few of the yellow press to intimidate, silence and punish critics, among whom was himself .
Five corners (Alfaguara), which goes on sale Thursday in Spain and Latin America, it takes its name from a Lima neighborhood that has followed the vagaries of history Peru:. upscale neighborhood, the center of criollismo in the twentieth century and currently marginal area where common crime operates
the novel addresses blackmail an engineer by a tabloid newspaper, murder organized by the Government and the sexual adventure of two women of Lima’s upper class from a night when the curfew forced to sleep in the same bed.
“it tells a story that first it seems police and then transforms into history of political implications in a context of great uncertainty, a lot of violence “in the words of the author.
“We see the havoc that a dictatorship because even in experiences that appear to be little political, and how a dictatorship that gives its last gasps creates a climate of insecurity that causes profound changes in families as the case of these two ladies who live an experience that never was it prepared, “he said.
the novel, however, is not politics as it was Conversation in the cathedral, warned. “It is a social novel, the gravitation of politics in private life”
The writer has left all the attention to history. With a traditional structure, care has been devoted to language in the novel happens precisely because this is the least showy possible to assess the facts, behaviors and characters from a certain formal invisibility.
the corruption of journalism in the form of sensationalism through the book. Peruvian intellectual remembered how the Fujimori dictatorship used it deliberately, systematically and effectively.
“It was a press that is generally not bought or read but looked hanging on the stands”. Many critics of the regime frightened and silenced destroying his reputation.
It’s not that dangerous thing of the past sensationalism. “It is one of the serious problems of the culture of our time. All countries have now a journalism which is like a gangrene” he says.
Nothing undermines respect for institutions, the law, freedom and coexistence in diversity as “a journalism that offends” and makes the lies truth, the result of “a culture in which entertainment has become the predominant value.”
yellow Vargas Llosa jumped to pink on the question of the press. It did not grant danger to that color, but personal discomfort with him, now that his relationship with the former wife of Julio Iglesias has photographers stationed at the front door to prevent him quietly out for coffee.
“If I could choose, would not appear in ‘Hello!’. I would appear in literary journals, which is my world,” said the writer, halfway between regret and discomfort.
“what would that do to not appear in ‘Hello!’? If you give me a recipe, I’d appreciate it,” snapped the reporter who asked if enemy of the magazine in his essay civilization show (2012) had now become an accomplice.
and he answered a few weeks after giving with Preysler an interview with this publication, the first as a couple, which made headlines in February. “This has been the happiest year of my life,” said the Nobel in that cover.
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