One is Peruvian, Nobel Prize for Literature, anti-Communist and passionate about politics, the other is French, Minister of Education, keen on Latin America, especially its authors, and passionately secular.
When Mario Vargas Llosa and Jean-Michel Blanquer meet, they talk about freedom, education, democracy and, of course, literature.
Le Figaro Magazine
made them talk to their joint publisher Gallimard.
Mario Vargas Llosa publishes
Wild Times,
a novel that evokes tragic events in Guatemala in the 1950s, while Jean-Michel Blanquer signed
Open School,
an essay where he explains his management of the pandemic in schools and why this crisis has renewed the pact that links society and education.
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- Mario Vargas Llosa, your new novel reconnects with your first love: Central America in the 1950s, in the midst of the Cold War… Why did you choose to tell the story of the short democratic experience of
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