"No other novelist of the English language - written Ignacio Ramonet Mario Vargas Llosa, to whom he devotes an article in the November 2010 Monde Diplomatique - as it does the art captivate the reader, the shoe from the first lines and plunge into frames where breathless intrigue after another, full of passion, humor, cruelty and eroticism. " Next to it is the career of an intellectual engaged in politics of the Nobel Prize 2010. Until the late Seventy and as a member of "a generation of talented young writers - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes ... all left," as recalled Ramonet obstinately Vargas Llosa campaigned to the left; best at far left, in support of Latin American guerrillas and their armed struggle. Then, suddenly, he converted to the right, becoming an "ultra-liberal agitator", who recently, for example, "legitimized the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and justified the coup in June 2009 in Honduras" . The closing section of Ramonet is tasty. She defers verbatim remarks made by the Peruvian writer about Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Among other "undesirable people who are nonetheless worthy of extraordinary writers", according to Vargas Llosa, author of Journey to the End of night was "an extraordinary novelist," but also "a repugnant character."
The problem remains, however, and the discovery of conclusive Ramonet does not help to solve it. Instead, it raises again the acutely. Found repugnant to us is like when he changed sides, ultimately, it is very easy. What is difficult is to understand that by this change, it is becoming a mirror revealing. Ce qui est difficile, c'est d'admettre qu'on aurait déjà dû le trouver répugnant quand il était carrément comme nous-mêmes, quand il était des nôtres et professait les mêmes idées que nous. Ce qui est difficile, c'est de se trouver, en lui, répugnant.
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