Una obra de teatro del Premio Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa. Sin duda el escenario es el espacio privilegiado para representar aquella magia de que está hecha también la vida de la esa otra vida que inventamos porque no podemos vivirla de verdad, sólo soñarla gracias a las esplendorosas mentiras de la ficción. Chispas Bellatin y Raquel Saavedra, ambos peruanos y miraflorinos, se encuentran en una habitación de hotel, en Londres. Aparentemente no se conocen y, sin embargo, tienen un pasado comú Raquel dice ser la hermana de Pirulo, gran amigo de la infancia y juventud de Chispas. En este universo cerrado, se emprenderá un extenso viaje interior, a veces doloroso y tenso, a veces tierno y ligero. La conversación entre ambos será como una caja china donde detrás de una historia se esconde otra. En esta obra de teatro, el diálogo ininterrumpido llevará de la mano al lector por caminos insospechados. Será testigo de la construcción de una identidad, donde la frontera entre la realidad y la ficción es tan difusa como la niebla. Las mentiras que Chispas Bellatin contará en esta habitación, al pie del Támesis, iluminarán y sacarán a flote su verdad más recóndita.
Author
Mario Vargas Llosa, born in Peru in 1936, is the author of some of the most significant writing to come out of South America in the past fifty years. His novels include The Green House, about a brothel in a Peruvian town that brings together the innocent and the corrupt; The Feast of the Goat, a vivid re-creation of the Dominican Republic during the final days of General Rafael Trujillo’s insidious regime; and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comedic semi-autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho. He is also a widely read and respected essayist, writing everything from newspaper opinion pieces to critical works on other writers, including The Perpetual Orgy on Flaubert. Vargas Llosa is also active outside the literary arena, and was a serious contender for the presidency of Peru in 1990 (eventually losing to the now disgraced Alberto Fujimori), an experience he documented in his memoir, A Fish in the Water. On the controversial nature of some of his work he said, “The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.” He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2010, "for his cartography of structures of power & his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". http://us.macmillan.com/author/mariov...
