Last Sunday, April 13, Mario Vargas Llosa He left for eternity. The death of the renowned writer brings to the present one of his recent interviews internationally, in which he revealed how he would like to be remembered after starting from this world.
At that time, the Nobel Prize for literature denied fear of death, he even indicated that eternal life would be something “frightening” for human beings.
Although Vargas Llosa said that if he could choose how to be remembered, it would be for his facet as a writer.
“(Do you worry about posterity, immortality, you are worried about how it will be remembered?) It doesn’t worry me so much. I have done many things in life … Man, if I could choose, I would like to be remembered fundamentally as a writer, although one does not know what way it will be remembered. If it will be remembered. Nor is it a central concern. I don’t work for death, work for life”, Said Mario Vargas Llosa to the BBC News.
“I would like death to find me writing, as an accident … having lived life until the end and above all not to have died in life, which is the show that seems sadder to me for a human being“He added.
Mario Vargas Llosa will be honored in the FIL Lima 2025, confirmed the president of the Peruvian Chamber of the Book
After the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian book of the book reported that in the next edition of the International Book Fair (Fil 2025) it will be dedicated as a posthumous tribute to the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The president of the Peruvian Chamber of the Book, Ricardo Muguerza, gave this news in an interview with Radio Nacional.
“The sooner we will meet to plan the most important and transcendent posthumous tribute that the FIL of Lima has done before. Of course, know that this version will be dedicated as a tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most important authors of Hispanic literature”He said.
Muguerza indicated that new editions of several of the key works of the renowned Peruvian writer will be presented.
“There are only months left. This will be an occasion for books such as ‘City and dogs’, ‘Conversations in the cathedral’ and ‘The War of the End of the World’ again decorate the showcases of the stands. There is no doubt about it“, held.
