Mario Vargas Llosa: “Never in my life would it have occurred to me to make fun of Isabelle”

‘Winds’ was the last story published by Mario Vargas Llosa in October 2021. He appeared in a magazine Free letters, but it wasn’t until his relationship with Isabelle Preisler ended that this fiction gained notoriety in the Spanish press. Some passages were interpreted as a veiled message about the decline of the novel between the writer and the socialite.

However Nobel Prize in Literature This Thursday, he denied that he tried to hide his love crisis in the said “absurd and absurd messages.” “Never in my life would it have occurred to me to make fun of Isabelle,” he told the newspaper. World. “At that time, I got along very well with her. I don’t even remember when I wrote those episodes that were published in the newspapers.”

Vargas Llosa he acknowledged that by the time it was published, the story was “completely gone”, even though “it’s everywhere now”. “The other day, the person who takes care of my books said to me, ‘All of a sudden we started getting letters that want ‘Los Vientos’,” the Spanish-Peruvian confirmed.

“This is a story about old age. I wrote it for Free letters and now it comes out in many countries in the form of a book,” he added later. And he emphasized that if there is something he struggles with, then it is “age”. “You need to try to write to the end. The ideal is to die with a pen in hand.”

Mario Vargas Llosa won’t talk about his breakup with Preisler in book

The announcement of the split between Isabelle Preisler and Mario Vargas Llosa made international headlines and to this day, a month later, continues to keep people talking. The real reason for the breakup is still unknown; it was about “unreasonable jealousyon the part of the writer, the deterioration of relations on both sides, and even the alleged evasion of the Peruvian from marriage with a socialite.

The only thing that became clear was that the two main characters decided not to delve further into the topic. He Nobel Prize in Literature he had left the Preislers’ house, where he had lived since the romance took hold; Now he has returned to his hideout on Calle Flora in the center of Madrid, surrounded by the books that lie in his library.

In a recent newspaper interview A country, author of “The City and the Dogs”, “La fiesta del chivo” and “Conversación en la catedral” stressed his decision to make no further claims about the idyll he had with the Hispanic Filipino; although he acknowledged that the experience seemed “fabulous“He’s not going to put it in a book.

“The experience was great but not literary. It can’t be turned into a novel, he said, explaining how he managed to “get away” from the “pink press” after he split from the media. “I didn’t make any (statements) about Isabelle. And I have journalists on the portal planted for a month from seven in the morning. I would go for a walk and find them already,” he says.

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