Today Nobel Vargas Llosa and Cuba, memory and visibility Michael H. Houston Miranda 08/10/2010 - 6:31 pm .
M ost years later, to a young interviewer Cuban, Mario Vargas Llosa was kind enough to ask for Havana. Was he then the interrogator. The writer wanted to know, recalled a site, bodies of La Rampa, determined by a city that no longer exists, habitable and inhabited only in his memory, a fateful findings Square, the scene of a battle is not over. Havana evocation of the now-at last Nobel Prize untwist a series of clashes that were sparked presume after the news of the award. Already run a few comments thrown rolling from those narrow circles of power tropics: the thing smells like something that goes beyond literature. For Havana, there will always be something beyond literature even when there is not even literature seriously. But Vargas Llosa should be very quiet. He was the man of letters, has embodied an office, has survived his own exhaustion and finished by winning an endurance race that, lest we forget, was the first stretch his most memorable moment just before the Revolution as criminalized. First of all we should ask how Vargas Llosa has been read from Cuba. His novels always came at the wrong time, although by that time we had learned how to read negative, on the underside of certain pages, to avoid a headline in Granma the eye of the accused. How to read the writer is bound to recover that same past is going to be stabbed every day for power? The uneasy relationship of the writers of the boom with the Cuban Revolution is based on the ancient Latin American misunderstanding of the possibility of redemption by the promised power. And yet the fabric of this relationship describes the same curve emphatic of all hypocrisies manual. With hindsight we can inquire and crudely what Vargas Llosa was excited about a process that only in October 1959 had already become something of a farce. The Cuban Revolution was and remains what Vargas Llosa has reported that it was the Soviet Union as global single point: the greatest-and logic the worst-challenge for Latin American democracies. These revolutionaries themselves were not going to forgive after his much visibility, political activism and opposite that reached to rub the presidency of Peru, let alone its economic success if it meant he would not leave a weight into the coffers of America Department dismantled . That same political visibility as uncomfortable for the Castro regime that the Academy was delayed a verdict of such justice. Arthur Lundkvist had sworn that Jorge Luis Borges would not take the prize as he was to stop it. To the derision of the Swedes, Borges died first that such Lundkvist. Vargas Llosa has survived them both and left a couple of novels that can safely considered masterpieces. Another four or five are quite memorable and sufficient to leave an imprint on English literature, to ensure posterity. And we know that sometimes do not even need a book to qualify as a classic. But the academy had been devaluing the award which would suck without even sixty years. That would be great news if Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño had not died so young. Cubans who love liberty have no reason to feel indifference to the awarding of this prize to Mario Vargas Llosa. Because few intellectuals, writers and artists have shown a greater persistence in Bury the repressive nature of the regime in Havana. And because you can imagine how painful a story and in the caverns of the torturer, where they arise / occur the dark frames of real life stories of individual resistance to the power that Vargas Llosa has put several of his novels.
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