Vargas Llosa work enters elite French publishers – La Razon

The 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa became the first foreign life published in the coveted French collection La Pleiade, which compiles the best of literature. Yesterday, two volumes that gather part of the work of the Peruvian writer published, for whom this fact “is like a dream”

The first volume includes. The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversations in the Cathedral and aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. The second, The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, The Way to Paradise and The Bad Girl.

To make the dream of Vargas Llosa became a reality for four weeks translators Stéphane Michaud, Albert Bensoussan, Anne-Marie married and Bernard Lesfargues, were given the task of reading the file the journalist, who is at the University of Princeton.

for them it was a challenge as peruanismos had to clarify and localism present in the novels of the writer. With this work, this edition renews the French translation of “sumptuous, rich and polyphonic” language, Vargas Llosa, explained Michaud, who was elected to coordinate the publication.

For Michaud, the importance Vargas Llosa gives La Pleiade with this issue “comes from his love of literature, both French and universal, so well represented by this collection, which also has the characteristic of being imperishable”

it was eight years ago when the author of Five corners received the news in Barcelona, ​​by its editor, the late Carmen Balcells, who taught him the letter in which the Antoine Gallimard editor stated that “it was time” to enter the collection, which is made up of works of renowned writers such as Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Stendhal.

with the publication of his work in this collection, the author of bosses becomes the author number 17 in entering this select list in life, as most writers are included posthumously.

among the list of authors who were part of La Pleiade in life are Milan Kundera, Claude Levi-Strauss, Nathalie Sarraute and André Gide, among others. While the authors in Castilian whose work is in this catalog are Octavio Paz, Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca.

For Vargas Llosa, this is also an opportunity to revive its ties with Paris, where which finished his first novel the Time of the Hero and began the green house.

on April 5 the writer will light city for the publication of these volumes. Two days later, will participate in a meeting at the Cervantes Institute in Paris, with Juan José Armas Marcelo, director of the Chair Vargas Llosa, his translator Albert Bensoussan and Fernando de Szyszlo.

The Pleiades is made 800 volumes. Some specimens are preserved in glass cases locked in some bookstores. The writer André Malraux defined it as “a library of admiration”. Currently, they come to sell 300,000 copies a year.

Vargas Llosa was a regular consumer of this collection, which for him “is this area that is accessible only literary works that have stood the test of time and have been consecrated as worthy of being part of this ideal library “.