“What do you want to know?” he asked. Mario Vargas Llosa to the press that was waiting for him at the doors of his Madrid home this Sunday night. The Nobel Prize for Literature, who spent the end of the year in Paris, has confirmed his break with the queen of hearts and has assured that not everything is as it has been told.
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“I feel very well, I have just spent a day in Paris and the only thing I want is to confirm the interview that Isabel has given in Hola“Said the Peruvian writer, stunned and rushed by the presence of the cameras.
Isabella Preysler He told last Wednesday, exclusively and in his friend magazine, that the break between the two is “definitive”. The weekly assured that everything was blown up as a result of a scene of unfounded jealousy. The loss of illusion from the beginning of the courtship in 2015 and other discussions did the rest. On this, the author of The city and the Dogs He pointed out this Sunday: “The reasons for the breakup do not exist, it is not true, they are not true.”
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Before heading to Paris, Alvaroson of Vargas Llosa, shared a video on social networks in which his father appears “Reading aloud the first edition of Madame Bovary (1857) to bid farewell to the year”.
Reading aloud the first edition of Madame Bovary (1857) to say goodbye to the year: pic.twitter.com/qlj5Y389qB
— Álvaro Vargas Llosa (@AlvaroVargasLl) December 30, 2022
In this work, published by the French Gustave Flaubert in the 19th century, a frivolous woman is represented who is married to an austere and boring man. The woman, Emmafeels dissatisfied next to Charles, so he decides to look for other loves to fill that void and help him to find himself vitally. Did the intellectual relate the story of Madame Bovary with his own love (and heartbreak) story with the queen of hearts? It is curious that she publishes the video just at this moment, in full media commotion due to her breakup with Tamara Falcó’s mother.
On the other hand, as his own environment has recalled these days, in 2021 he already published a story that would have autobiographical overtones. In The winds, the protagonist (narrated in the first person) regrets having left his wife for a love of “pichula”: “Every night, it seems incredible, since I committed the madness of abandoning 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.” You have to remember that Carmen is the first name of his ex-wife, the mother of his three children, Patricia.
“It was a crush on the pichula, not the heart. Of that pichula that no longer serves me for anything, except to pee,” added the renowned author in his story, which now makes more sense than ever.