By Mario Vargas Llosa

The 1st number of essays by means of the world-renowned Peruvian novelist explores the connection of literature and politics, the factor of Latin American independence, and the magic realist type of his books, between different topics."

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In the past twenty years, millions of emigrants from the sierra have come to live in Lima, in slums – euphemistically called ‘young communities’ – which surround the old neighbourhoods. Unlike us, middle class boys from Lima today discover the reality of the country just by opening the windows of their houses. Now, the poor are everywhere, as pedlars, tramps, beggars and muggers. 5 or 6 million inhabitants and its enormous problems – rubbish, inadequate transport, insufficient housing and crime – Lima has lost a great deal of its charm: its colonial districts and jalousied balconies, its tranquillity and its noisy, wet carnivals.

He makes clear the exclusive nature of the literary vocation in his Sartrean study of his friend and mentor, the writer Sebastián Salazar Bondy, and he is speaking of himself when he refers to the discipline shown by Hemingway: ‘Because literature is a passion and passion is exclusive … Hemingway is in a café and by his side there is a young woman. ” That is exactly what slavery means. The condition of a writer is strange and paradoxical. His privilege is freedom, the right to see, hear and investigate everything … What is the purpose of this privilege?

Now, the poor are everywhere, as pedlars, tramps, beggars and muggers. 5 or 6 million inhabitants and its enormous problems – rubbish, inadequate transport, insufficient housing and crime – Lima has lost a great deal of its charm: its colonial districts and jalousied balconies, its tranquillity and its noisy, wet carnivals. But it is now truly the capital of Peru because all the peoples and all the problems of the country are represented there. They say that hatred is mixed in with love and this must be true because I spend my life speaking badly about Lima and yet there are many things in the city that move me.

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