Contemporary Debates and Mario Vargos Llosa.
Mario Vargos Llosa is a
Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college
professor. He is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and
essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some
critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and
worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature,
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of
the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat". The works of Mario Vargas Llosa are viewed as both modernist and postmodernist novels.Though there is still much debate over the differences between
modernist and postmodernist literature, literary scholar M. Keith Booker
claims that the difficulty and technical complexity of Vargas Llosa's
early works, such as The Green House and Conversation in the Cathedral, are clearly elements of the modern novel.
Furthermore, these earlier novels all carry a certain seriousness of
attitude—another important defining aspect of modernist art. By contrast, his later novels such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, and The Storyteller (El hablador) appear to follow a postmodernist mode of writing. (Wikipedia).
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Mario Vargas Llosa's views on the issues related to 'liberals',
'nationalism', 'populism', 'greatest challenge to Democracy', 'intellectual
honesty', 'literature and morality', political correctness and freedom', and
'technology''technology' in classroom.
Liberals : A supporter of liberalism, a political philosophy founded on ideas of liberty and equality, generally they support ideas and programmes such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free markets, civil rights, democratic societies, secular governments, gender equality and international cooperation.
But at some point in their struggles they have to face the bitter social aspects in order to gain freedom as Feminist activists are constantly fighting for the rights of women, they are facing many social challenges. Third gender people are more in trouble as they are not accepted by the society as normal gender of male and female.
Nationalism:
As per his views, Nationalism involves a kind of racism. If you believe that belonging to a
certain country or nation or race or religion is a privilege, a value
in itself, you believe you are superior to others which is harmful for the society and break the idea of equality among different race, caste and class. As we can see in Harry Potter that how the class according to the pure, half and mud blood operates which creates aspects of inferiority and superiority. Liberals are decline the nationalism which is the harmful for the unity or equal rights.
'Greatest challenge to Democracy'
It is said that India is the democratic country that all that is happen it is in control of people/public but that is an illusions not reality. What is seen is not the truth in this post truth era but it has hidden reality which operates by the powerful people/companies like now Jio has control over the public as having all data of public. People even don't have freedom of speech or to raise voice against injustice.So, Democracy is just the illusion not really present in our society.
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