Mario Vargas Llosa: 'I don't regret anything'

2023-02-16T14:24:10.748Z

SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - The Peruvian-Spanish writer and Nobel laureate receives "El País Semanal" in his house, in Madrid. Just before his induction into the French Academy, he confided in literature and life.

By Manuel Jabois (El Pais)

The writer Mario Vargas Llosa (86 years old, born in Arequipa, Peru), Nobel Prize in Literature, receives

El País Semanal

in a bright house with imposing spaces and filled with books.

This building is his famous refuge in Calle de la Flora, in the center of Madrid, abandoned by the author seven years ago to move elsewhere in the Spanish capital, in an even more illustrious residence, that of the "queen of

the hearts

,” Isabel Preysler, at Puerta de Hierro (Hierro’s Gate).

“It was an experience, period.

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I am here again, surrounded by my books”, he confides in the middle of the interview, laughing, like the one who returned to Ithaca.

He hastens to qualify his remarks: “

I regret nothing, absolutely nothing

”.

The writer of the classics of universal literature such as

The City and the Dogs, Conversation at The Cathedral, The Green House, The War at the End of the World

The Goat Party

displays a good mood.