“I dedicate my silence”, a new novel by Vargas Llosa, will be published on October 26

“I dedicate my silence”the new novel Nobel Prize of Literature Mario Vargas Llosawill arrive in bookstores on October 26, as reported by the publisher on Tuesday alfaguarawhich will publish the novel simultaneously in all the territories of speak spanish.

It is a novel set in his native Peru about a man who dreamed of a country united by music and who went crazy wanting to write a perfect book that would tell about it.

four years after “Hard Times”Mario Vargas Llosa, returns to the novel with a work that mixes fiction and essay to talk about a subject that has obsessed him for years: utopia, although, in this case, a cultural utopia with Peruvian music as its core and pretext.

“The waltz, born in the alleys of Lima, integrated Peru. Here I tell that story, and with it I thank a secret love that has accompanied me all my life: the one I feel for Creole music and, especially, for the waltz of my country.declared the writer born in Arequipa 87 years ago.

“I dedicate my silence” tells the story of Creole music expert Toño Azpilcueta and his discovery of a virtuous guitarist, Lalo Molfino, whose talent seems to confirm all his intuitions: that the deep love he feels for Peruvian waltzes, marineras, polkas, and huaynos has a social justification.

“Perhaps what happens is that Creole music is, in reality, not only a hallmark of an entire country and an expression of that very Peruvian attitude of the huachafería (Peru’s greatest contribution to universal culture, according to Toño Azpilcueta), but something much more important: an element capable of causing a social revolution, of breaking down prejudices and racial barriers to unite the entire country in a fraternal and mestizo embrace,” Vargas Llosa points out.

The novel takes place at the beginning of the 1990s, in the midst of the Shining Path’s terrorist offensive, in a fractured country ravaged by violence. The music then seems “It could be what reminds all those who make up society that, above anything else, they are brothers and compatriots.”

And in this, it is possible that the virtuosity of Lalo Molfino has a lot to do with it.

Azpilcueta decides to investigate more about this guitarist, travel to his place of origin, meet this elusive character, learn about his history, his family and love affairs, how he became such an excellent musician.

And he also intends to write a book where he can tell the history of Creole music and develop that idea that the discovery of this extraordinary musician has inoculated in his mind.

Source: EFE