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The defense of freedom 
In Mario Vargas Lllosa happily combine an aesthetic and a political mind. The ideological errors of his home made him an ardent defender of individual freedom, traverses the whole width liberal thinking. From a eulogy by Frank Schirrmacher. fight with words for words: Mario Vargas Llosa
08th "Writing novels" October 2010, he once noted, "is a revolt against reality, against God, against the creation of God, which is the reality, "Literature is a rebellion, that is. an act of liberation. Provides them with alternatives, options, but before she does, she must have the courage, that's what not to recognize as something that necessarily so and can not be otherwise. The aesthetic is common knowledge. In the language of politics and society transfer but does that mean it is the birth of the individual from the spirit of rebellion. Contrary to my mind the beautiful dreamer, fueled this rebellion is not only the search for ultimate truths, for God, for the beauty. These are eternal questions.
There is also a small number. The point is that the existing one is in question because you will, it is the individual better mentally - certainly - but also socially and economically. Many writers in the twentieth century totalitarian concluded therefrom, collectivist ideologies are as it were the real political version of the literary utopia. I only know a few who at one time, even as great courage to take this "uprising" was one, went the other way: put the question of the modest little luck, had the respect for the will and desire of the individual and his longing for welfare. For the years between 1960 and 1989 I know only one that has literary world rank, one who knew what he is talking because he comes from a region that has become a laboratory for generations of ideologies and dictatorships: Mario Vargas Llosa.
Mario Vargas Llosa and Frank Schirrmacher at the presentation of the Freedom Prize in Frankfurt's St Paul's Church
It must have been the early eighties when I first time met in the home of Siegfried Unseld, who was in Germany, his congenial publisher. It was a dinner. On the table was politicized. One, a typical Western European intellectuals of the time lamented the failure of the socialist revolution in South America and asked Llosa, in complete disregard of his correspondent, whether that failure is not the tragedy his continent is. Then Llosa: "I do not think the typical South Americans want to live like in Cuba or in the GDR. I think the typical South Americans would like to live like you do. "
The lesson of the collapse
published twenty-six years with Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel and immediately enters, no, not the stage of literature, but of world literature. 1962 was that, and rightly speaks of his great admirers, Daniel Quinn, an "enormous work" in every way.
"The City and the Dogs" tells the story, based on our own experience, from the brutal life in a Peruvian military academy. Who European education novel knows, from the famous passages in the "Buddenbrooks" to "students Gerber" should read this book: Here, a socialization, describes a character for which the vocabulary no longer civilized enough suppression systems. It is beyond that.
A year ago Llosa this debut, as it posted in the Review, with his equally autobiographical novel "The Bad Girl." Here, the action spans the time of the fifties until the late eighties. It is a recapitulation of history from the perspective of a half refugees, exuberant, to mention only in passing, in that mood, which is typical of Llosa, a social and mental history in the small, mainly a love story. But at the same time it is a political and economic history. In the background of the novel
that is being played out of the political and economic decline in Peru, and this is about things that we read today is a little bit different than before. The uncle of the narrator says in a letter about the situation at home, at the end only with barely legible writing, and the narrator, while he is away as a cosmopolitan in the world, and now we hear Llosa himself, "step by step economic disaster followed - inflation, nationalization, Break with the credit organizations, price and exchange controls, reduction in employment and living standards - that brought Alan Garcia's actions to the country. "
A committed writer
You have to remember because Llosa in March 1988, the Freedom Movement Moviemento Libertad "and founded in July 1989 took over the presidential candidacy for Liberal and citizens in the FREDEMO. One of the reasons was the study conducted by Garcia nationalization of banks and the prospect that his potential successor Fujimori would radicalize things. Llosa was right, the Fujimori regime threatened to withdraw his citizenship, and the Fact that Fujimori was later searched with arrest warrant was no satisfaction, only a sad confirmation of a man who declined to be confirmed.
Llosa is like the other great South American writers, Borges and Cortazar think of, at that squad of literary talents, which combined the Immigration and Experience of South America with Europe and especially the European intelligentsia of the fifties and sixties. Like almost all of his generation, has also reached him Sartre set the committed literature that call and hope to be able to change society through literature.
Even today, Llosa admits to Sartre, but not the political Sartre, but the belief in the mind-altering power of literature. Just that he has sided with the individual and the groups with suspicion, even fear considered: no other has such a keen sense of the dictatorship in the state of pupation for humanity dripping rhetoric, in which in truth is already pupated totalitarianism . There are indeed words that dictators abuse of all countries and ideologies, words of freedom, equality and humanity. If so, this is the mental operation Llosa's words against the words can make a difference.
The broad sense of liberalism
It is not good and perhaps a historic mistake that in Germany in recent years, liberalism is associated with economic liberalism. Thus it could happen that the great tradition of liberal thought as the core consciousness of capitalism could work itself. "This view of things," Llosa writes, "is no less stupid than what the Marxists have preached once. The Marxists explain everything economically, and liberals do believe the market could be all handicaps. But no major liberal has argued so primitive. "
literature is a method of producing freedom, we can summarize it, because she does what every child knows what every career, every promotion, any self-invention is: You see in reality a machinery of life opportunities of options, not by restrictions. "The liberalism, properly understood," writes Llosa, "is just not an ideology but an open, self-criticism obligated idea system.
His modernity creating power is based not disputed that from him the basic ideas have emerged that underpin our democratic societies: human rights, freedom of expression, recognition of diversity, tolerance, violence, division and mistrust of each kind of too much political power " . For some of these thoughts was Llosa Colleagues hard, sometimes often criticized unfairly. Especially in Germany it is the blame have been bestowed upon some major writer who saw the convenient division of the world in black and white, good and evil, socialism and capitalism at risk.
defense against the totalitarians
This criticism fails to recognize that the word in the above quote and the work Llosa plays an important role, a noun is: self-criticism. Llosa is an uncomfortable ally, and as someone who comes from the media, I know what I mean. We read of how he distinguishes the freedom of expression against the abuse of that expression. Mario Vargas Llosa is the author of the individual and the Counsel of his individual freedom - he writes, in a word, the counter-narrative to the totalitarian and collectivist manipulation of our time.
"We were wrong," he once said. "People need religion." He did not mean religion in the strict, traditional sense. He thinks religion in the literal sense, to be a bond of man. Even religion itself is large supply of books, and the proximity of the big stories of the people, whether they come from the world of the profane or the world of the sacred. Llosa, a bibliophile of rank, of a library called by eighteen thousand volumes of his own shows, just because he is a Man is the freedom, the lawyers of the pure accumulation of money, materialism, the waste that liberalism without rebellion, without self-criticism and without deep respect for the spiritual in the truest sense of the word is unthinkable. This would also be understood in Germany: a liberalism that is only on talk shows and reform rhetoric is not enough. He has to rethink the company, he must remember the enormous complexity in the modern world, the people themselves.
Another great South American writer, one admires the Vargas Llosa, although he is very different than he, the great realist, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges tells the following story: "In Dawn he dreamed that he is in one of the caves of the Clementine Library. What are you looking? ", Asked a librarian who was wearing dark glasses. , Seeking God, 'answers Hladik. 'God' says the librarian, is one of the letters on one side in one of the four hundred thousand volumes in the Clementine Library. My parents and the parents of my parents are looking for these letters. I myself have become blind in the search for him. "
We are not saying that Mario Vargas Llosa has found him the letter. That would be presumptuous. But we say that he has us all on a search made to see after him.
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Frank Schirrmacher, Mitherausgeber there FAZ, hielt Laudatio diese im Jahr 2008 anlässlich there Vergabe des Freiheitspreises the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung depends Mario Vargas Llosa.
Text: FAZ.NET
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In Mario Vargas Lllosa happily combine an aesthetic and a political mind. The ideological errors of his home made him an ardent defender of individual freedom, traverses the whole width liberal thinking. From a eulogy by Frank Schirrmacher. 
