The Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature, Mario Vargas Llosahe will dedicate the last work he writes to his “young teacher”, the Frenchman Jean-Paul Sartre, ending an extensive career that began with “The City and the Dogs”, 60 years ago, in 1963.
“I dedicate my silence to you”, the novel by Vargas Llosa that will hit bookstores on October 26, and an essay about Sartre, on which he is working, will be the last works that the 2010 Nobel Prize winner in Literature writes, according to the author himself.
This is stated in a note at the end of the novel “I dedicate my silence to you”, which will be published next week by the Alfaguara publishing house simultaneously in all Spanish-speaking territories, a story 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 it.
Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) explains that he finished writing the draft of this novel in Madrid on April 27, 2022, began correcting it in May and that from then until the end of that year he was making small changes.
After taking a trip to Peru, he finished the novel. “Now, I would like to write an essay about Sartre, who was my teacher when I was young. It will be the last thing I will write“, announces Mario Vargas Llosa at the end of the note at the end of the book.
“I dedicate my silence to you” is a work that mixes fiction and essay to talk about a topic that has obsessed the author for years: utopia, although, in this case, it addresses a cultural utopia with Peruvian music as its core and pretext.
The novel, which he dedicates to his ex-wife, cousin and mother of his three children, Patricia, takes place in the early 1990s, in the midst of the Shining Path terrorist offensive, in a fractured country ravaged by violence.
It is the twentieth novel of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, who published the first of them, “The city and the Dogs”, 60 years ago, in 1963.
Source: Gestion
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