Although currently, Mario Vargas Llos placeholder imagea, is more in the spotlight and in the news for "pink press" issues that have little or nothing to do with literature, he is still one of the important writers of this century. Nobel Prize for Literature The 2010 y member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1994 they are only two of the many awards and distinctions that he has housed in his long literary and creative curriculum.
This article is worth reading, because authors like him recommend good books to us, it is a fact to take into account. And in another vein, what author would you like to recommend your favorite readings or those books that you consider almost mandatory to review?
The books that Vargas Llosa recommends us
Below we leave you both with the titles of the books that you have to read before dying, according to Vargas Llosa, and with the reasons given by the Peruvian author as to why you should do so:
The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fiztgerald
«The whole novel is a complex labyrinth of many doors and any one of them serves to enter its privacy. The one that opens this confession of the author of The Great Gatsby gives us a romantic story, one of those that made us cry », MV Llosa tells us.
"Auto de fe", by Elias Canetti
«At the same time as the demons of his society and of his time, Canetti also made use of those who inhabited him alone. Baroque emblem of a world about to explode, his novel is also a phantasmagorical sovereign creation in which the artist has fused his most intimate phobias and appetites with the shocks and crises that crack his world. tells us.
"The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
"Few stories have managed to express, in such a synthetic and compelling way as this one, evil, understood in its individual metaphysical connotations and in its social projections," says Vargas Llosa.
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller
“The narrator-character of Tropic of Cancer is the great creation of the novel, Miller's supreme success as a novelist. That obscene and narcissistic 'Henry', contemptuous of the world, solicitous only with his phallus and his guts, has, above all, an unmistakable verb, a Rabelesian vitality to transmute the vulgar and the dirty into art, to spiritualize with his great poetic booming voice the physiological functions, the meanness, the sordid, to give an aesthetic dignity to the rudeness ”, indicates Llosa.
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
«Humbert Humbert tells this story with the pauses, suspense, false clues, ironies and ambiguities of a narrator accomplished in the art of rekindling the reader's curiosity at every moment. His story is scandalous but not pornographic, not even erotic. An incessant mockery of institutions, professions and tasks, from psychoanalysis - one of Nabokov's black beasts - to education and the family, permeate Humbert Humbert's dialogue », explains about the work.
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
"The systematic beautification of life thanks to its refraction in exquisite sensibilities, capable of drawing in all objects and in all circumstances the secret beauty they contain, is what gives the world of Mrs. Dalloway its miraculous originality", tells us.
"Opinions of a clown" by Heinrich Böll
“Opinions of a Clown, his most famous novel, is a good testimony to this scrupulous social sensitivity to mania. It is an ideological fiction, or, as they said even at the time it appeared (1963), 'compromised'. The story serves as a pretext for a very severe religious and moral prosecution of Catholicism and bourgeois society in post-war Federal Germany. ' think.
Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"
«... But without that confusing story that pats, stuns, and finally tears them apart, the lives of the protagonists would not be what they are. This is the central theme of the novel, the one that reappears, over and over again, as a 'leimotiv', throughout its tumultuous adventures: the defenselessness of the individual in the face of history, his fragility and impotence when he is trapped in it. whirlpool of the 'great event', tells us.
"The Gatopardo" by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
«As in Lezama Lima, as in Alejo Carpentier, baroque storytellers who resemble him because they too built some Lierary worlds of sculptural beauty, emancipated from temporary corrosion, in« El Gatopardo2 the magic wand that executes that trick by which fiction acquires its own physiognomy, a sovereign time different from the chronological one, it is language », Explain.