“I dedicate my silence to you”, ultimate and abundant novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

“To the five streets Lima” by Mario Vargas Llosa

Thanks to his always voluble pen and her sense of story always as alert, Mario Vargas Llosa offers a remarkable dive into the history of music Creole – Valse, Marinera, Huyanito, Resbalosa,…. Similarly, We learn that The crowdone of Edith Piaf’s best known songs is actually the French version of a waltz. In addition, made up in Lima in the 1930s.

Investigation – "i dedicate my silence you",

Particularly documented. However, I dedicate my silence to you Make characters that have really existed (like the singers Chabuca Granda and Cecilia Barraza or the poet César Vallejo) with others, invented from scratch, like Lalo Molfino or this Toño Azpilcueta presented as a specialist in Peruvian music and dance dance, despised or ignored by intellectuals.

José Durand Flores was not mistaken: Toño Azpilcueta “i dedicate my silence you”, will be pierced by the performance of Lalo Molfino. Moreover, the music entering his body to flow into his veins.

When he learned of the premature death of Molfino. For example, Azpilcueta has only one idea: to devote a book to him with the firm intention of emphasizing the importance of music for the unification of Peru and – who knows? However, – other countries. In addition, “We usually thought that it was religion. language or wars that constituted a country and created a society, but never had anyone thought that a song, music could take their place.”

Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa for “Wild Time”

Unite the Spanish. the Indian

We will have understood: this music that makes “All brothers”whose main theme is love but which also addresses “The cloaks of society, sometimes describing misery, the narrowness of the life of the poor”Inspire in Toño “i dedicate my silence you”, Azpilcueta a vibrant plea. The famous evening of the representation held in Bajo El Puente. Additionally, the one who considers himself a proletarian intellectual understood why he had devoted his life to national folklore. “A folklore which. although constituted at the end of the 19th century […] had started to ripen three centuries earlier, when after the ferocity of the Spanish discoveries and conquests had arose from Peru from the future, uniting, in violence, it goes without saying, the Spaniard and the Indian so that the Peruvian is born. “ The Peruvian writer. who broke the presidency of his country in 1990, did not fail to dive into the tumultuous story of the latter, from the Inca Empire to the recent political dramas.

Death of Mario Vargas Slab

The end of the book. Mario Vargas Llosa devotes it to the difficulty that Azpilcueta has in being edited. Two houses “i dedicate my silence you”, refuse his manuscript, “His book was completely deviating from what had the favor of the country’s readers”. The author of The civilization of the showessay in which he castigates the culture that has become simple entertainment. knew what he is talking about. Finally, a certain Antenor Cabada, a former bookseller, proposes to become his publisher. And the sales of the book fly away. Audacity and confidence can also be of good advice.

⇒ I dedicate my silence to you | Roman | Mario Vargas Llosa. translated from Spanish (Peru) by Albert Bensoussan and Daniel Lefort | Gallimard, 285 pp., € 23, digital € 17

EXTRACT

“Well, I think the author is a little zinzin. Be careful. he claims that Criolla music is a factor in our country, that it brings people together of different races, colors TLANGUES […] He maintains that Criolla music “i dedicate my silence you”, will play this fundamental role: unite the Peruvians. An extravagant thesis, don’t you think? “