The novel makes us dream of a different world

For the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Losa, “The novel has two functions: it makes us repeat the real world and make us dream of a different world.”

The author of 20 novels, from City and dogs (1963) I dedicate my silence (2023), the Nobel Prize for Literature made this literary type the continuous theme for their conferences.

He said in one of the talks he presented during every two years, a scientist who fills his name, who was made in Gaddalakhara in tomorrow, May 2023:

He said without hesitation: “So, why are we a wonderful dreamer, why do we want a different world for our countries? Because we read the accounts.”

“The novels are the great incentives so that we want different things in the world that surround us that are late in relation to what we can invent and dream.

“I think the novels, with these romantic heroes and those wonderful characters, are seduced, motivated and made us want a different reality,” added stories narrators, articles and theatrical writer.

“For example, in Latin America, in the world of the novel, there are no quarters, there is no army; these strict habits, do not rise against the power we choose, there are no ethnic biases that promote violence in our countries. In the face of this, there is nothing better than reading good novels.”

Vargas Llosa, who was when a young man had to leave his hometown Peru and travel to Europe to become a writer, proud of the current power of the novel in Latin America.

“It has reached a very creative profile. Care the book, as well as addressing individual issues, and inventing ways to calculate the original copies,” he said.

author The truth of lies. Articles on the modern novel (1990) He emphasized that, for the first time, Latin America’s book expresses Latin America and doing this in creating an unknown way to say.

“For the first time, our literature is fully coordinated with the literature of other countries that were more advanced than us,” he said.

“If this Indian subcontinent is not divided, these barriers are very artificial, which express a reality formed; that is, many countries may feel that they are expressing. We see you in our novels,” and concluded.