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true story is an insult to art and truth.
-Vladimir Nabokov
so interested in its time (1992) book Mario Vargas Llosa, the truth lies, it rewrites Alfaguara now enriched with new texts.
The title of this collection of short essays on the authors that have excited (Flaubert, Camus, Faulkner, Lampedusa, Mann, Kafka, Victor Hugo, Hemingway, and many others) has its appeal, like most literary propositions in apparent contradiction, ie, in a paradox: the truth that is achieved through the lie.
Since I started writing, Mario Vargas Llosa used to ask if what I wrote was true. When he answered he had the uncomfortable feeling that he could not explain it very well, having said something that "never was in the center of the target. " But with time and the literary experience was becoming increasingly clear that the literature is a lie, so-called "literary fiction" is explained by the etymology of the word, since it comes from the Latin fingere fiction, ie : the verb model, perform, invent, pretend.
"I write (my stories), I choose it all happen in some distant time and place a bit far," thought Borges. "That gives me freedom to fantasize and even counterfeit. I can lie without anyone noticing and, above all, without me noticing it myself. "
is a convention accepted between the reader and writer. It is also a continuing problem in the philosophy of all time: the truth. The novels lie, says Vargas Llosa, but this is only a part of it. "The other is that lying, they express a curious truth that could only express hidden and concealed, disguised as what is not." And is that humans, both children and old and middle age, they realize of the ambiguities and misunderstandings that occur in the perception of reality. They also know how difficult, how extremely laborious to establish the truth of a crime, for example. They know that political life, for example, ranges constantly between truth and falsehood. The "judicial truth" the truth of the judges and the police is not enough. There is always room for doubt. How many lies Bush and Blair wanted to justify the invasion of Iraq and the "taking" of Baghdad? Why are so many murders in the political enigma?
ethics, politics, journalism, living in the cult of truth. The most immoral, for example, American society, is lying. It swears to tell the truth with his hand on the Bible. No lie, says the warrant. So when we say that a writer is a liar seems that he is denigrating. And there is no exact word in English for clearly referring to what the literary lie. Because lying is a very negative connotation. Involves deception, dishonesty, evil. However, in the field of literature is tantamount to lying fable.
Given the impotence of journalism and history to tell the "truth", the truth seems to find its last refuge in the literature or at least a possibility of truth, a truth deeper and more subtle. And so the reader of fiction, not afraid of the excesses of fantasy. On the contrary, delights in them to see if flying blind, imagination enough to rub some areas of the elusive truth. "Men are not content with their lot and almost all, rich and poor, great or poor, famous or obscure, they wanted a different life of living. To appease that appetite-trap-born fiction. They write and read for humans have lives that are not resigned to not have, "Vargas Llosa argues. Writer
realistic if the school of Gustave Flaubert, the author of the Hero and The Feast of the Goat recognized that memory is the starting point of fantasy: the springboard that fires the imagination in her flight to the unpredictable fiction. Literature known to move in ambiguity and its truths are always subjective, half, relative and often constitute blatant inaccuracies or historical lies.
After shredding the novels that has enjoyed and recommended, concludes the volume with a disquisition (originally published in Reader's Digest) about the importance and meaning of reading in a moment of history it seems, but not is true, that the writers are about to disappear as the telegraph and people away from the graphic culture. For nothing has lost faith in the written word. This book convinced that anyone can make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.
case of stories, says Colombian Fernando Vallejo, "the truth is the correspondence of this with what happened, and she is opposed to lies. Thus defined is a matter only of history, or even the first-person novel. Since the novel is an invention, no question of truth in it, and where no question of truth likewise be no lie. In the novel, truth and lies are two illusions that are canceled. An inventive novelist novelist is not a liar. Is a novelist to dry. Liar would be the invented story. "
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