Online Discussion on Llosa's ideas.

This blog is a part of our academic task given by a teacher (Dept. of Eng. MKBU).

Online Discussion on Llosa's ideas

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010. His most recent novel is "The Neighborhood." He was interviewed for The World Post by Michael Skafidas, a journalist and professor of comparative literature at the City University of New York.

In this interview Llosa shared many ideas related to literary work in which I liked three ideas given by Llosa.

1) Idea on Feminism

2) Ideas and Images

           3) Novelist is the Historian

I personally liked the view of Llosa on feminism in which he said that feminism has become very sectarian and dogmatic kind who always stand for stupid equality. llosa also gave an example of feminists attacked  Nabokov's "Lolita" the best novel of 20th century but feminists attacked about male characters. This kind of stupidity destroy the charm of literature. I liked the idea about good and evil in literature because literature do not perfect without evil character. As a man we should respect women but it does not mean we accept everything which is the prejudice of feminist. Sometime over criticism destroyed the charm of literature.

Second is the image and ideas. In this points Llosa said that today's world young generation give the importance to image more than ideas. It is very harmful to youth that they think  images are creative for modern time but they do not think that this century is the age of Photoshop and post truth. We see in our India how Political party use fake images to make people emotional. If youth grow up in this images culture then it will be destroyed intellectual. As Ravish Kumar used to talk that (पेहले लोग आंखों में धूल जोकते थे अब ईमेज जोगते है) this kind of image make you sheeple and ideas make you intellectual.

Third one is 'Novelists is the historian of the unrecorded'.  Given sentence is very true through literature you get idea about social, political and religious background the ages. Literature record dark side of country, person etc. Here Llosa gives an example of Leo Tolstoy's greatest Novel "War and Peace" which is related to the Russian history and many writers used to wrote about historical aspect Many Novels written on Mahatma Gandhi and contemporary time for instance the novel "Kanthapura" which is record the freedom movement in India. So, this very great to read the literature which narrate the history.