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When we celebrate the Silver Jubilee in 2003, many projects and activities were deferred due to time and budget. One project that did not materialize was Commemorative Magazine 1978-2003 The Silver Anniversary Promotion Paul VI. This initiative was in the pipeline only by lack of money, it was a shame because the design was finished, just missing the full print color. Well, fate made in 2008, we have this blog, that amounts to nothing more than an online journal. That's why in this space I had to transcribe an article published 5 years ago.

is an imaginary interview that he did the writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique, just after he has been honored for his work "The Garden of my beloved." It was a hypothetical mischief motivated to get something on his biography and review some of his literary works that we are well-read from time to time ...

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MY IMAGINARY INTERVIEW Alfredo Bryce Echenique A

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César F. Cardenas Linares

Since reading "The Garden of my beloved," he knew he would have carried out a meeting between the man of the pen and me. An interview that I could not miss for anything in this world. His work is not everything. Each time you release the tongue, is a spectacle, and this time the exception would not arise. It is a pleasure to chat with him, even in fiction.

and abstract fantasies seem to have no place in our world ... . How do you abstraerte and to create where all is automated?

is very difficult but not impossible, since we are going to complete dehumanization, where the pleasure of conversation, the values \u200b\u200bare disappearing. The power of the word and his word of a man and worthless.

how to combat these days? fight it with my convictions, with the pleasure I feel about life, finding the human side. I insist on the values \u200b\u200bthat I believe that ultimately would have an ethical background that allow not wrecked in the seas of nowhere. Also fortunately I have not been alone. There are many people who feel like me. I'm not a man who has left alone and left behind.

That response is a romantic, and each time there is less ...

Yes, but for example the act of reading is the last act independently and freely left to the man, because even when making love and is influenced by advertising. A reading of you stop and then restart anytime. It is an act in which man and still does just thinking.

But that hardly seems to think.

Yes, things are raised to think not only to consume. We live this crazy consumption never thinking that the world we naked and we're going to leave here the same way. In addition we are filled with things in this new nihilism to make us believe that we are no less important.

Success understood only in the context of the prizes, money and being number one is not cruel?

Yes, that's pretty cruel.

And in your case, do not write to win prizes and be recognized?

No, that is to write to win prizes is a mistake. It suffered a number of disappointments, but obtaining a prize may be a stimulus. For example the award winning Metro has made me a legion of readers did not have before.

Many writers have thought of the immortality of his work, Alfredo Bryce thinks or ever thought?

No, I do not make trouble, so I'm happy. In the very act of writing enjoyment, suffer and live with the thought and enough for me.

last year about alleged statements came from you where you meant in a derogatory way to Peru and that's why you're not much time at home ...

What was said about me affect me much, I never said something, and what hurts me most is that many people who I thought was my friend, he got the car of folly and do not give me the slightest benefit of the doubt.

Maybe that's why, for the bad weather to your person, do not live here ...

not why, it really is very comfortable to write away from your country, no pressure, no space to organize your ideas, my abstraction reaches the limit at times that I find in my country. Also I will say that I always come every time I can for a girl who has become my creative muse. I make my living between Spain and Peru.

Speaking of Love, this can be a honey trap?

André Malraux said and I share their thinking, what can only write a novel being in love. This drive might even love you for creating the novel in whole or part of it.

do not have children, how you take it?

My older brother was born ill, he was epileptic, blind and mentally retarded. It was very painful and marked my family, at first I was afraid that I can think of something. That fear does not exist anymore because I have nephews healthy and intelligent. Now the two women he was married and having children would not convenient for me to write, I also did not want children because we lived with very little money and very little space, even having a cat had been unhappy animal.

think if you had had children they would have been unhappy?

I at least would not have anyone who looked like me. I think I paid enough.

not think you're too hard on yourself?

in this case. In this case I was quite realistic.

Touching another point .. At one point you had leftist sympathies, especially since collected the values \u200b\u200bof solidarity, the right thing many say that it does not ...

No, no compassion. I think those values \u200b\u200bare the heritage of the Left, an early Christian or a Christian left, to put it somewhere. I believe these values \u200b\u200bare not dead, but people are subjected to this neoliberal trend is showing signs of failure and that only served to pauperize to developing countries like ours.

think your left is dead?

The left is not dead, all that happens is that with the fall of the Berlin Wall was found called the failure of real socialism, but that does not mean that the ideas of Marx and Mariategui in Peru longer in use. Even Marx's analysis of capitalism can be very effective. Nothing really is dead, everything is sleeping and is cyclical, everything is relative, everything changes in the eye with that look, that is why whenever we are facing against each other.

Now, tell me about what is happening in the world. I need your comment about the war between the U.S. and Iraq. Norman Mailer said that U.S. exports to the world patanería, arrogance and trash ..

really do not share that comment, but I understand Mailer. What happens is United States right now is planting thousands of "mines" doubts about his foreign policy. No one will believe the reasons for his attack on Iraq, and the world I think it is getting tired of having the U.S. as the autoabanderado of freedom, justice and democracy in the world. Foreign policy should change in coming years for the United States, the American people do not deserve the kind of leaders who in recent decades are being implemented interventionist policies directly and indirectly in various parts of the world. La Paz it is never holding a gun.

As also live in Spain and Europe know well, Historically Europe has seen how the U.S.?

To them, have the notion that the U.S. is illiterate, which is true. They do not want to know about the world, only to improve your life status. Do not travel much outside the country and few really know the truth their own history. Besides the knowledge they have about the world is very limited, which is why they are so awkward diplomatically, and they know very well, hence the force is what is most manifest in those days. The truth is that the world is going wrong if aterminar international agencies do not act effectively. Do not expect that there is more bloodshed to act.

back to your work, is no coincidence that your first major work "garden enclosed" de1968 and the last until now published "The Garden of my beloved" have similarity in the title?

The truth is that there is no reason to speculate about it, it's just coincidence. "The Closed Garden" opened the doors to be known. In Sanmarco while studying to be a lawyer and wrote things. When I graduated in 1968 and had written. "The Garden of My Beloved" is a return to the roots, the dull walk this ungrateful world.

Well, Alfredo, thank you very much for your valuable time, the truth is that I had fabulous ....

And that you have not brought anything to "push" for the next one will not forget. Say hello to all those big boys in your school promotion. Tell them to read more and to enrich your life with a good pastime, that women drink and still have plenty of time.

Lima, May 2003

Paco Cardenas Linares