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is well known that the talent can apparently flourish in the most adverse conditions. Mario Vargas Llosa, those were the Leoncio Prado military school in Lima, which had as a student for two years, on Thursday paid homage to him with the Peruvian army, another institution that, like school, he reneged for a long time.
"I'm excited to see how they stretch out their arms to the former cadet," said Vargas Llosa at the military base where the ceremony was due to repairs being made on the premises of the school. Of all the tributes he has received Vargas Llosa in Peru after receiving the Nobel prize, this was one of the most symbolic and significant. "The Peruvian Army olive green shines its light, Mr. Mario Vargas Llosa," he said in his speech Urcariegui General Juan Reyes, head of the military region of central Peru. He meant the first Nobel Prize for Literature was born in the country, yes, but also the writer and former presidential candidate in more than one occasion had been condemned by various military leaders, who on occasion came to be classified as a traitor their homeland. It is also said that copies of his first masterpiece, The City and the Dogs, set right in the Leoncio Prado, were burned in the courtyard of the school, as a sign of repudiation as in which the author described the environments and relationships between pupils in a few lines that are immortal now. While recalling the experience at school and hard, the author of Conversation in the Cathedral has always talked about it with gratitude and yesterday was no exception. Its passage for two years by the military college Leoncio Prado (1950-1951), studying third and fourth high school was crucial to consolidate the vocation of the Nobel Prize now. Vargas Llosa was sent there by his father who had the idea that martial rigor strip him of the literature, that Ernesto Vargas Maldonado described as "mariconada", by memories of the writer.
The effect, fortunately, was reversed in the midst of the rigors of boarding school adolescents strengthened Vargas Llosa literary inclination. The newcomer quickly turned to his fellow students in "the poet", who earned a little money writing erotic novels custom love letters to their peers, while taking advantage of the long night watches to read the classics, and accumulating experiences that years later resulted in a novel is exceptional.
The writer also pointed out during the tribute to his stay in the military college enabled him to know better the reality of Peru, to meet students from different backgrounds, races and social levels, something he learned after several works brilliantly portray momentous.
"Of course, I saw the hopes, desires, dreams ... but also the resentment, misunderstanding, resentment fragmentation of the country that generated and made the ground of our country was a volcano ready to erupt. It was an amazing experience to know Peru in its diversity, in its extraordinary wealth, but also its enormous problems, "said Vargas Llosa after meeting with current college students and old colleagues with their seventh promotion. Among them was Victor Flores Fiol, whom he called "his first literary agent" because it promoted his writings among the other cadets. Then, put on his cap badge of the institution, now recognizes it as undoubtedly the most illustrious alumni.
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