Mario vargas llosa vs rafael correa biography
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Mario Vargas Llosa takes a swing at Murakami, Auster, Kundera and Assange?
Nobel laureate for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa is interviewed in the weekend edition of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, on the occasion of the Italian publication of his book La civilización del espectáculo (in Italian La civiltà dello spettacolo).
His short book/pamphlet – not to be confused with Guy deBord’s The Society of the Spectacle – warns in its opening:
It’s probable that never before in history have so many essays, treatises, theories and analysis been produced on culture as in our time. This fact is even more surprising given that today culture, in the traditional sense of the word, is on the point of disappearing. Or maybe it has already disappeared discreetly emptied of its meaning, substituted by another come to distort what it had.1
The grand old neo-liberal of letters rails against some very specific targets in the published interview:
MVL isn’t thinking so much of the greyshades of the international bestsellers as much as novels – judged too light – by Milan Kundera, by Paul Auster. Or by one Haruki Murakami: “An interesting case. He writes easy books, but with the appearance of a complexity that reassures
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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The recent poison gas attack in Syria, America’s stepped up military activities in Afghanistan, a presidential power grab in Turkey and the clownish bellicosity of North Korea’s “leader” have overshadowed an important development closer to home: left-wing populism’s slow-but-steady decline in the Americas. Just a few years ago left-wing populism was on the rise, embraced in one form or another by Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Venezuela and even Chile. Today, even the People’s World, the “news” organ of the Communist Party USA, concedes the “pink tide” may be receding.
The recent presidential vote in Ecuador confirms this.
The election pitted Guillermo Lasso, a former banker who campaigned on a free-market reform platform, against the aptly named Lenín Moreno, who outgoing President Rafael Correa had hand-picked to be his successor.
As strong-man presidents (right and left) often do, Correa made sure that Moreno won the early April election, a runoff contest between the two candidates who pulled the most votes in an earlier contest.
How could Moreno lose? Correa had all but destroyed Ecuador’s free press, turning the media into Moreno cheerleaders, and the election itself was plagued with “irregularities” that led to claims of fraud.
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