Vargas Llosa: fictions and lies

away, oh, mind, the image (last Sunday in EPS) Vargas Llosa hunter dressed white beard adventurous three days, of Congolese children and Focus, strict in its new book, to return to the serenity of the things on your site.

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Spell and relying on their effectiveness, we must report that Vargas Llosa has written "The trip to fiction. The world of Juan Carlos Onetti '(Alfaguara), a very interesting analysis of the Uruguayan writer (from' 'style and marginal convictions), suggesting the relationships and literary heritage that gives you, and in stimulating the debate on the relationship between literature and biography, the real and the imaginary, the trade to survive and the craft of writing. Very good, nice and reading.

But, if only to show a key debate, there is a literary position of principle that can not agree with Vargas Llosa, and is the fiction equivalent of a 'lie' and that pleasure is not causing other that of 'live other lives. A topic very loose there.

fiction, readers or viewers to "come out of their precarious existence to live another life, a life of lies, they build in silent complicity with the man or woman who, at center stage, in FABULA aloud, conducted without warning, the more exclusively human activity, which defines a more genuine and inclusive so that human nature is still in training out of himself and life as it is moving through a fantasy to live for a few minutes or a few hours a substitute for actual reality, that we choose not to, we are fatally imposed by reason of birth and the circumstances, a life that sooner or later feel like a prison and an easement that we wanted to escape. "

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Chosen the author is referring to an ancient community, it is clear what is' exclusively human.