Madrid
When a Nobel Prize in Literature and a former model and presenter go their separate ways, there's the short, blunt and austere version of celebrity published in the gossip magazine
Hola
:
"Mario and I have decided to end our relationship. definitely relationship.
I don't want to make any further statement and I thank our friends and the media for helping us with this decision."
And then there is the narration of the triple academician: seventeen pages published in the literary journal
Letras Libres
, a dystopian short story with scatological overtones that describes the sinking of old age in a society as technological as it is decadent.
Officially,
Los Vientos
("the winds", in its acceptance of flatulence) has nothing to do with the separation between Mario Vargas Llosa and his companion of seven years, the Hispano-Filipina Isabel Preysler.
And for good reason, it was signed on December 15, 2020 and published on October 1, 2021, that is, at least, more than a year before the break.
But the…
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