Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, aged 88, announced that his latest book, “Dedico a Você Meu Silêncio”, is the last novel of his writing, although he still wants to publish an essay on the French philosopher Jean -Paul Sartre, his teacher in his youth.
Released by Alfaguara last November, the work is far from being able to be compared to what he wrote to win the Nobel Prize.
In it, however, he presents the interesting thesis that music can be an instrument to unify a country, in this case, the Peruvian waltz.
Passionate about football, he twice mentions Héctor Chumpitaz, considered the best defender in the history of Peruvian football, but he gives music, not the ball, the greatest potential for unity.
Llosa was an enthusiast of Fidel Castro and replaced him with Alberto Fujimori, in an impressive metamorphosis from one extreme to the other, which is why he disappointed old readers and did not gain new ones, as fascists, as a rule, have an aversion to culture.
I met Llosa in the press box at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium, in Seville, at the 1982 World Cup, hosted by Alberto Dines, who had been a visiting professor with him at Columbia University, in New York.
Llosa covered the World Cup for the Spanish newspaper ABC, and Dines, for Playboy magazine, and it was the great Brazilian journalist who opened his masterful report with a quote from the peninsular poet Federico García Lorca to refer to the opening of the World Cup: “At five of the afternoon It was five in the afternoon.”
Back to Llosa, author of gems such as “Conversa na Catedral” and “Tia Julia e o Escrivinhador”, failing to read him for ideological reasons is equivalent to doing the same with Nelson Rodrigues, nonsense.
Regardless of not coming close to his best books, this “Dedico a Você Meu Silêncio”, 205 pages, is worth, starting with the title, for the boldness of the thesis about the unifying power of music, despite him seeing erotic qualities in the Peruvian waltz that He does not identify either tango or samba as a chauvinist sin.
In times of polarization, in which there were energetic people capable of rooting against Fernanda Torres at the Golden Globes, perhaps only football, in World Cups, is capable of uniting a nation. And look there, because there are controversies.
VACATIONS IN A SERIES
“My Dear Caretaker”, “Nothing” and “The Museum” are notable Argentine series that are on Disney directed by the duo Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn.
In addition, the holidays gave time to watch “The Hunt”, with Al Pacino, on Prime Video.
And the beautiful “The Italian Happiness Train”, on Netflix, based on real events in post-war Italy.
If the rare reader wants to have even more fun, look for the complete “El Clásico” that decided the Spanish Super Cup, in Barcelona’s sensational 5-2 victory over Real Madrid, on the night Raphinha put on Vinicius Junior, Mbappé and Bellingham in the pocket.
BECOMES FASHION
Gisele Bündchen is being sued for advertising for a financial institution that caused losses to investors.
It’s controversial, but if the trend catches on in the families destroyed by bets, there will be a high fever in the world of those who advertise them.
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