The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Mario Vargas Llosa's environment explains the break with Isabel Preysler: “They were incompatible. He is interested in culture and she is interested in entertainment”

2022-12-29T05:10:33.992Z


The Nobel Prize for Literature and the celebrity have broken up after eight years of relationship. Sources close to the writer clarify the reasons for the most unexpected and mediatic separation of 2022


“Every night, it seems incredible, since I committed the folly of leaving my wife, I think of her and remorse assails me.

I think I only did one thing wrong in life: abandoning Carmencita for a woman who wasn't worth it (...) Every night I think of her and I ask her forgiveness," says Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 86 years old) in

Los vientos

, a story with autobiographical overtones that he wrote more than two years ago and published in

Letras Libres

in 2021. In this story, the Nobel Prize for Literature tells the story of a man who is reaching the twilight of his life, a disillusioned man who regrets having left his wife for another.

“I already forgot the name of that woman for whom I abandoned Carmencita.

I never wanted her.

It was a violent and fleeting infatuation, one of those crazy things that destroy a life.

For doing what I did, my life broke up and I was never happy again (…) It was a crush on the

pichula

, not the heart.

Of that

pichula

that no longer serves me for anything, except to pee ”, continues the Spanish-Peruvian writer in his story.

The publication of

Los vientos

went unnoticed by the general public, but not by the intimate environment of the author of works such as

La fiesta del chivo

and

La tia Julia y el escribidor

, who saw in this story signs of the apparent fatigue that Vargas Llosa was already feeling then after seven years of living together with Isabel Preysler (Manila, Philippines, 71 years old).

The fictional story is littered with clues that lead to reality.

There are the repeated references to his ex-wife: Carmen is the first name of Patricia Llosa, the previous wife of the Nobel and mother of her three children.

Criticism of a frivolous and empty high society can also be read between the lines: “It is impossible to enjoy a concert, or an opera, or even a light comedy, surrounded by people who do nothing more than type or caress the tablets under their feet. the eyes".

The writer's discomfort in the face of media overexposure and what he himself called “the civilization of the show” is palpable: “Sometimes I think that, without realizing it,

what happens around me is contaminating me too and I no longer know how to really distinguish between what is culture and that which takes its place in the crazy world in which we now live”.

And his tiredness and boredom with a social agenda as intense as it is monotonous: “Dinner impressed me a lot, it's true, not because of the food, nothing special, but because of the holograms.

All night we were surrounded by these ghostly characters, doubling as waiters or waitresses, serving the table, passing the platters with snacks and drinks.”

In fiction, the protagonist manages to flee from that dystopian world and takes refuge in his old house, on Calle de la Flora in Madrid, which is the house where Vargas Llosa lived with his cousin and ex-wife, Carmen Patricia Llosa. .

More information

Isabel Preysler and Mario Vargas Llosa separate after eight years of dating

"When we read

Los vientos

, we saw the clear autobiographical references and also the references to his relationship with Isabel, although of course he does not use her name by any means," explains a person from Vargas Llosa's closest entourage in conversation with EL PAÍS.

“This story was finished writing in December 2020, two years ago.

So the crisis with Isabel comes from afar.

It has not been something sudden or unexpected, as has been said.

The deterioration of the relationship, the doubts, the regret, the dissatisfaction... all this had been brewing for a long time.

The tabloids have always presented them as an idyllic couple, but they went from something idyllic a long time ago to something less happy and more complicated”, continues the same source.

In the month of June of this year, Mario Vargas Llosa and the widow of Minister Miguel Boyer suffered their first major crisis.

As EL PAÍS has learned, he left the house she has in the Puerta de Hierro urbanization and returned to her apartment in the center of the capital.

Shortly after, he returned to the mansion of the so-called "queen of hearts" on Miraflores avenue.

So they denied the breakup rumors, but the differences were there.

“There were no jealous attacks, as has been said.

That is false.

This has been the culmination of deterioration ”, they insist.

This newspaper has tried to contact Isabel Preysler.

"The lady is out of the country," explained an employee who works in one of the most famous houses in Spain, so many times portrayed in the pages of

Hello!

.

“Mario and I have decided to end our relationship definitively.

I don't want to give any more statement," she said on Wednesday to the aforementioned magazine, her leading publication for 50 years.

In the

Vargallosian

circle they describe the couple as “two people from very different worlds”.

And they talk about two reasons that precipitated the break.

The first, the discrepancy in their interests and lifestyles, the lack of common plans.

“They were incompatible.

He is interested in culture and she is interested in entertainment.

There is an abyss between the two."

The second is more of an impression.

"He already seemed to feel uncomfortable seeing his image as an ornament, as a claim for parties, events and even for the documentary of Isabel's daughter, Tamara Falcó," they say.

Friends of both agree that both tried to adapt to their respective worlds.

But culture and entertainment are antagonistic universes.

"At first, Mario was even amused from an anthropological point of view, although he was never comfortable in that area," they admit.

The Nobel Prize went on to say that he submitted to the poses, the exclusives and the

photocalls

“for love”.

“If I could choose it, I would not like to appear in

Hello!.

Now I appear in the magazine for personal reasons.

But if you have the recipe for not appearing, tell me ”, he asked a journalist at the press conference for the presentation of his novel

Five Corners

, in 2016. In that same act, he defined

Hello!

as "the serialized novel of the 21st century."

“It is a cultural phenomenon of our time.

There are millions of people who want something that makes them dream and that before offered the novel and poetry.

Now offers it

Hello!

with enormous talent,” he said.

His words surprised the cultural press that covered the event, which still had the

Civilization of the show very much in mind.

In

In that 2012 essay, the author defined the gossip as a “frivolous” industry, “without aesthetic values”, dominated by “the carnival of liars”.

During these years, that same press insisted on portraying the Preysler-Llosa couple as a happy couple.

But the signs of wear had been surfacing for some time.

She did not accompany him to the last literary congress on her work, held a few months ago in the city of Florence, nor to the recent premiere of a production of

The Tales of the Plague

in Catania, Sicily.

"Isabel preferred to go to the Maldives," she concludes.

At the end of

Los Vientos

, the protagonist manages to reach his old house, the royal house of Vargas Llosa, “where Flora street meets Hileras street and touches the minuscule Plaza de San Martín, which will later become the Plaza de las Descalzas”.

“I did not have the key that opens the large gate where I live (…).

However, I was lucky.

After only 10 or 15 minutes of waiting, a man with a cane appeared, whom I half recognized.

He stood by the door and took out a key and opened it."

As if Mario Vargas Llosa had recognized Mario Vargas Llosa.

Source: elparis

All news articles on 2022-12-29

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-20T07:00:55.079Z
News/Politics 2024-02-21T18:35:18.868Z

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.