Will Mario Vargas Llosa write a novel about his relationship with Isabel Preysler? This was answered by the Nobel Prize winner in his first interview about the breakup

A little over a month ago, Isabel Preysler and Mario Vargas Llosa made news when they announced that they had decided to no longer continue together and go their separate ways. The news took the international public by surprise, since the mother of the singer Enrique Iglesias and the award-winning Peruvian writer had formed one of the best established couples in the show, after a relationship of almost 10 years.

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It has clearly been a rupture with no possibility of going back, as the Nobel Prize for Literature has hinted at, when he shared in a literary fragment that he had made a mistake by “abandoning Carmencita” (a reference to Carmen Balcells, his agent and great accomplice) for a “violent and temporary infatuation of the pichula, not of the heart”, as a kind of chronicle of an announced repentance.

That position has regained strength in the present after a new media interview that the author has starred in in recent days, after having avoided commenting on the well-known break.

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In a conversation with the Spanish newspaper El País, focused on his work as a writer, the interviewer takes advantage of the literary references in the dialogue to finally address the separation with the socialite of Filipino origin. During the last month, Vargas Llosa has remained concise on the subject and apparently prefers to continue like this.

The journalist Manuel Jabois first questions him about his experience with the tabloids, since the unexpected separation was spread. “How does one get out of the tabloid tunnel boring machine?”asks Jabois. “Not making any statement. I haven’t done any about Isabel (Preysler, his last couple). And I have had journalists planted in the portal for a month since seven in the morning. I would go for a walk and I would already find them ”.

Next, the interviewer insists on this topic and the writer emphatically cuts the question, although laughing: “I’m not going to talk about Isabel, not at all… The experience has been magnificent, but not literary. It cannot be turned into a novel, that”.

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When the reporter takes up the possibility of telling his courtship in a literary work, Vargas Llosa confirms his position: “No, not at all. Absolutely. I have finished a novel about Peruvian music, about the Peruvian waltz… No, I am not going to write a novel about this (his courtship of hers), not at all, nor am I going to talk about her”.

The Peruvian recognizes that although they are two very different worlds, although very separated, he finds no interest in recounting their relationship. “The experience was lived and that’s it, I’m back in my house, surrounded by my books.” The Nobel Prize winner for Literature, who left Madrid after the ‘divorce’ with Preysler, ends the interview by assuring that, in any case, “I absolutely do not regret anything”. (AND)