The flaming Nobel prize de Literatura 2010 has confessed who “never was between my literary aspirations gaining this award. My ambition has been always to write good books that are read like I I have read those that they have changed my life, that has affected to me, dazzled, enriched like being human, like writer… A dream that never I will know if reality will become or not�. But that dream is more and more close. Its last novel, the dream of celta, has been put on sale with an initial distance of means million unit in 17 countries of Hispanic speech, including the United States, and 22 foreign publishers work already in the translation of the new work.

Nevertheless, in spite of the numbers that always accompany Vargas Llosa, the news of the award has been a “total surprise� for the Peruvian writer. “About the life I never thought that they would give this prize me�, that has trastocado its life completely: “It is a very pleasing recognition and simultaneously a revolution. It gives the impression that much people think that Nobel is very important�, has ironizado. And it does not need reason. To the 20 minutes to announce the prize, its apartment in New York, where it finished mudar, one filled of unknown people. “Camarógrafos of Denmark, journalists of Finland… How they arrived, who said to them that it lived there, how they entered my house, still I do not know it�, has narrated the novelist between laughter of the journalists.

And it is that although the writer is “very contented� with the prize, has recognized that “I do not feel comfortable. It is not the type of life that I like to have. After receiving Nobel I feel harassed and invaded. My schedules have jumped by airs. I am sleeping two or three hours to the day, when I sleep. And my day of work, with which ground to be very strict, also. So my life has changed much, but it tranquilizes knowledge to me that this is transitory and I hope to return normal rate soon�. Before, next the 10 of December, Mario Vargas Llosa will go to Stockholm to pick up the award and will deliver a speech that has not wanted to keep awake: “I am going to keep the secret�.

Also, during the multitudinal presentation in press conference of its new novel, the dream of celta, Nobel de Literatura has paraphrased the French writer Gustave Flaubert to affirm that “my way to live is to write�, and based on the writing and the reading it organizes its life. “It is more, - it has assured, never I stop doing it. When I also go out on vacations, because for me to write it is a great pleasure, is the supreme pleasure, and when this is interrupted by exogenous factors I feel lost�. In addition, Vargas Llosa, who never has had “that call the target of the writer�, has showed that its problem “is that I have the sensation of which never I am going to have time sufficient to make all the things that wanted�.

And when he does not write, what hobbies have? It likes to listen to classic music, mainly the symphonies of the composer and Czech conductor Gustav Mahler, to go to the cinema and to be with the friendly. “Culture much the friendship. One night with a small friendly group stimulates to me. I believe that my life is very normal and current and they give to much envy the writers me who have the most interesting lives, infernal, demonic, but I could not. I need my daily routine, my hours in the library, a film, a dinner with friendly… Mediocrities of this type me make happy enormously�, has indicated.

The figure forgotten Roger Casement

On the dream of celta, based on the life of the Irish Roger Casement, one of the first European in denouncing the horrors of colonialism, concretely, which happened in the Congo, property of king Leopoldo II of Belgium, Vargas Llosa has stood out that “the book does not follow history faithfully, is a novel, but it starts of an historical reality. Casement documented the crimes that happened in the Congo luxury of details yet, like in the South American Amazonia, where it saw the same tortures towards the indigenous towns�. And there is addition: “Casement is one of the great the most forgotten figures of history and one of. I do not believe that a person in Europe exists that has made so much bring to light these abuses�.

For that reason, one of the things that it more seduced to him from the start of Roger Casement was, “besides extraordinary the humanitarian work that carried out throughout all their life, the complexity of the personage. On the one hand, we see a hero, a person with an anger outside the common thing and, on the other, to a human being with weaknesses, incongruities and contradictions in its biography. Somebody in that the common and current beings we can be clear immediately. This attracted to me very many and it gave the idea to construct a novel me from his figure�.

The Peruvian writer has also commented who discovered by chance to Roger Casement, reading a biography of the Polish novelist Joseph Conrad: “She was the first person who Conrad knew in Africa and was very important so that one of its masterpieces wrote, the heart of the darknesses, a book exceeds how the civilized being can become a savage�. As a result of there, the rest arrived without realizing. “I remained enchanted and fascinated by the personage. Suddenly I was with much documentation, so without knowing it had put to me in fact to work in this novel, and have to say that she has been one of the experiences more stimulating than I have had. To submerge me in those worlds, at the same time as it tried to fill with fantasy all the targets, made me live a great adventure�.

The last “dream� of Vargas Llosa

The adventure that narrates the last novel of Vargas Llosa, the dream of celta, begins in the Congo in 1903 and finishes in a jail of London, a morning of 1916. The work counts the vital eventful journey of a legend man: the Irish Roger Casement. Hero and treasonous and libertario, moral and immoral villain, its multiple figure goes out and appears again after its death.

Casement was one of the first European in denouncing the horrors of colonialism. From its trips to the Congo Belgian and the South American Amazonia they were two memorable information that shocked to the society of their time. These two trips and what it saw there would change to Casement for always, making him undertake another passage, in this case intellectual and civic, or as much more devastating, than took to him to face actively an England to which it admired and military man in the cause of the Irish nationalism.

Also in private, Roger Casement was a multiple personage: the publication of fragments of their newspapers, of doubtful veracity, in the last days of their life, aired escabrosas sexual adventures that were worth the scorn to him of many compatriots.

The dream of celta describes a existential adventure, in which the dark of the human soul appears in its purer state and, therefore, more enfangado.


The great subjects

• Colonialism: The central subject of the book and the biography of Roger Casement is the denunciation of the abuses of European colonialism.

• Nationalism: The life of Casement invites to reflect on the virtues and defects of the nationalism.

• Homosexuality: Being a subject shut in during its life to the deprived scope of its newspaper, a dark legend around the personage bursts in completely into its public image at the end of its days, weaving.

                                                                                                                             

A prolific writer

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1936. Although it had released a drama in the city of Piura and published a book of stories, the heads, whom the Prize obtained Leopoldo Wings, their literary race acquired notoriety with the publication of the city and the dogs, Prize Brief Library and Prize of the Critic. In 1965 second novel, the green house appeared his, that obtained the Prize of the Critic and the Prize the Galician Rómulo International.

Later, it has published:
• Theater pieces: The Miss of Tacna, Kathie and the hippopotamus, the Chunga, the ugly crazy person of the balconies, Eyes tuna, pictures and the thousand nights and one night.
• Studies and tests: Orgía perpetual, the truth of the lies, the temptation of impossible and the trip to the fiction.
• Memories: The fish in the water.
• Story: The puppies.
• Novels: Conversation in the Cathedral, Pantaleón and the visitadoras, the Julia aunt and the escribidor, the war of the end of the world, History of Mayta, Who killed Palomino Molero? , The talkative one, Praise of madrastra, Lituma in the $andes (Prize Planet 1993), the notebooks of gift Rigoberto, the Celebration of Chivo, the Paradise in the other corner and Pranks of the bad girl.

It has obtained the most important literary awards: Prize Prince of Asturias of Letters 1986, Prize Cervantes 1994, Navokov Prize of the Pen Club of the United States 2002, Prize Grinzane Cavour 2004 and Nobel prize de Literatura 2010.

He is member of the Peruvian Academy of the Language from 1977 and the Spanish Royal Academy (chair L) from 1994.