![]() ![]() I chose ‘The Feast of the Goat’ on recommendation of a dear learned friend because of it about a dictator (obviously ) and how the dictators reign ended. There is one colorful story of him punching the great Gabo in the face ending their friendship. ![]() Like so many south American writers, he is politically active, socially dynamic and never afraid of experimenting with writing or life itself. The answers varied but Mario Vergas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist, academic and politician, and a Nobel Prize Winner too – just to satisfy the social need to throw a name around. For example I asked myself who would be the second greatest South American Novelist? First one we all know of course. In isolation, I ventured to explore the writers I had not heard before (my loss of course) or have been seeing but scared to touch. All sorts of it - classical and popular, English and American ,the Russian classics and magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez a.k.a Gabo. No doubt fiction is said to be stuff for dreamers. In youth every one is a dreamer I am guilty of having the long youth hours spent devouring fiction endlessly. Fiction does not however offer solutions to immediate problems that concerns us the problems of personal development to economic development, and problems of skill building to earning livelihood. The time calls for imagination more than analysis, emotions more than calculations and thoughts more than opinions. May be it is due to the gloomy, uncertain and isolated environment all around. ![]()
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