Una pieza teatral del Premio Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa que recrea de forma magistral los relatos del Decamerón de Boccaccio. «Desde la primera vez que leí el Decamerón, en mi juventud, pensé que la situación inicial que presenta el libro, antes de que comiencen los cuentos, es esencialmente atrapados en una ciudad atacada por la peste de la que no pueden huir, un grupo de jóvenes se las arregla sin embargo para fugar hacia lo imaginario, recluyéndose en una quinta a contar cuentos. Enfrentados a una realidad intolerable, siete muchachas y tres varones consiguen escapar de ella mediante la fantasía, transportándose a un mundo hecho de historias que se cuentan unos a otros y que los llevan de esalastimosa realidad a otra, de palabras y sueños, donde quedan inmunizados contra la pestilencia.» Mario Vargas Llosa Los cuentos de la peste es una pieza teatral inédita de Mario Vargas Llosa inspirada en el texto de Boccaccio. El amor, el deseo, el poder de la imaginación y las relaciones entre las clases sociales son las claves de esta obra que recoge la esencia del espíritu del Decamerón : la lujuria y la sensualidad exacerbadas por la sensación de crisis, de abismo abierto, de fin del mundo. Una recreación magistral de un clásico de la literatura europea.
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...
