By Juan E. De Castro
Written from diversified views, the 11 essays that make up Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics painting the Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian novelist not just as probably the most celebrated writers of the final 50 years, but additionally as a significant impact at the region’s political evolution. Ever due to the fact that his conversion to unfastened marketplace ideology within the Nineteen Eighties, Mario Vargas Llosa has waged public conflict opposed to what he believes are the scourges of socialism and populism. This e-book experiences the fiction and journalism of Vargas Llosa within the context of his political concept.
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True identity springs from the capacity of human beings to resist these influences and counter them with free acts of their own invention” (68). Moreover, “the notion 26 Juan E. De Castro of collective identity is an ‘ideological fiction’ and the foundation of nationalism” (68). According to Vargas Llosa, globalization and modernization, for him the latter a near synonym of the former, are leading to the dissolving of rigid national identities: “Thanks to the weakening of the nation state, we are seeing forgotten, marginalized, and silent local cultures reemerging and displaying dynamic signs of life in the great concert of this globalized planet” (71).
In La utopía arcaica, he undertakes to analyze “what there is of reality and fiction in indigenist literature and ideology” (10) through the writings of the Peruvian novelist José María Arguedas (1911–1969), the only Peruvian writer who Vargas Llosa admits as having literary merit and who, in fact, is the literary hero of the Left and of popular sectors since his suicide. 32 Fabiola Escárzaga In the book there is no self-criticism regarding the main reason behind his earlier electoral defeat: his incomprehension and mis-encounter with the “Peru profundo” (“real Peru”).
The Wars of an Old-Fashioned (Neoliberal) Gentleman 35 In what remains of this chapter, we will look at Vargas Llosa’s political interventions in Peru and other Latin American countries from 1999 to 2007, giving special emphasis to the period between 2005 and 2007, when there were elections in several Latin American countries, including Peru, which placed two alternatives face to face: the continuance or rejection of neoliberalism. We will also analyze the reconstruction of Latin American reality in the writer’s texts.