Kłamcy i bogobójcy: Mario Vargasa Llosy uwagi o powieści

Abstract

The article discusses characteristics of the novel presented by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa - according to his words: "verbal representation of reality - as a synthetic form, using and absorbing other genres in its uncontrollable pursuit to embrace the whole of existing world. Its crucial characteristic becomes the disinterest understood as rejecting any pedagogical, moral, or propaganda functions, as well as remaining autonomous towards the world serving it as its pattern. The total novel - an ideal, which in Vargas Llosa's opinion is approached by the great masterpieces, from Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc, a classic of Catalonian prose, to Garcia Marquezs A Hundred Years of Solitude - is characterized by its ambition to contrast the whole reality with its equality full reflection, illusion of picture, using in its complexity all possibilities offered by the model, according to the rule that "while each novelist creates based on something, a total novelist creates based on everything”. Thus the total realism, infinitely broader than its I9th-century variant, embraces simultaneously several orders of the real world - historical, social, psychological, erotic, and spiritual - based on which it builds the world of the novel consisting of its reflection an denial at the same time.