La obra dramatúrgica reunida en un volumen del premio Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa. «El teatro y su imaginería son un género privilegiado para representar el inquietante laberinto de ángeles, demonios y maravillas que es la morada de nuestros deseos.» Mario Vargas Llosa La creación teatral de Mario Vargas Llosa, desconocida para muchos de quienes ya han disfrutado de su narrativa, es parte imprescindible de su carrera y sus inquietudes literarias. Este género le permite ahondar en una de las constantes de su obra: la medida en que las historias que relatamos y nos relatamos, las fantasías con las que pretendemos abrillantar cada día, son una manera de ensanchar nuestra existencia más allá de los límites que impone la realidad cotidiana. La señorita de Tacna (1981), Kathie y el hipopótamo (1983), La Chunga (1986), El loco de los balcones (1993) y Ojos bonitos,cuadros feos (1996), cinco textos dramáticos donde temas tan cardinales para el ser humano como la familia, la vejez, el orgullo, el destino, el amor, los deseos, el machismo, la dinámica entre presente y pasado y la naturaleza del talento creador quedan envueltos por otro: el papel de la ficción en la vida, la rectificación de la vida que obra la ficción.
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...
