« I am very grateful for all the inheritance he leaves us » – Liberation

At the foot of Mario Vargas Llosa’s apartment, in the opulent district of Barranco in Lima, facing the Pacific Ocean, Marilyn, the sixties, interrupts his dog for a moment. She made a detour this morning to come and pay a last tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa. On her phone, she shows a photo of her proudly posing alongside the writer. “I am from Arequipa, like him. For me it was a symbol of literature, a symbol of the defense of democracy. I am very sad because we lose a great man, but at the same time I am very grateful for all the inheritance he leaves us. ” Like her, those who knew her or who appreciated him came to make him a last farewell. At the door of the building, the cloud of journalists is in turn interrupted by the delivery of immense flowers of flowers, or by the entrance of relatives and friends who came to meditate.

Felipe, 90, also experienced the Nobel Prize in Literature, when he was still just a student: “It hurts me that he left. We were together at Military College Leoncio Prado. We were the two peasants, I too have come from Arequipa, so we got along well « , tells the old man, wet eyes, before smiling again: « He was already a handsome man at the time, he was lucky. » His imposing stature is also the memory that Daniel keeps: “I met him every morning. He was walking over