Nationalism in a Novel
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Those cases showed that Llosa tried to reveal his different views on things. Sometimes people question his nationalism and also loyalty to his own country.
However, he argued in this way. I never felt like a foreigner in Europe or, in fact, anywhere. In all the
places I have lived, in Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Washington, New York, Brazil, or the Dominican Republic, I felt at home.
I have always found a lair where I could live in peace, work, learn things, nurture dreams, and find friends, good books to read, and subjects to write
about. It does not seem to me that my unintentionally becoming a citizen of the world has weakened what are called ―my roots,‖ my connections to
my own country
– which would not be particularly important – because if that were so, my Peruvian experiences would not continue to nourish me
as a writer and would not always appear in my stories, even when they seem to occur very far from Peru http:www.nobelprize.org, May 24,
2012.
His different view on things is, no doubt, influenced by his experiences living across his city, even across his country. The experiences have enabled him
to be aware that there are several perspectives to see a problem that should be respected even in the case of showing his loyalty and nationalism to his country.
Thus, many people consider him as a cosmopolitan. One of them is Geordie Williamson, Australians chief literary critic, who argued in this way
. ‗Vargas Llosa is a cosmopolitan figure, a man whose political conservatism is almost at
odds with his liberated fiction. Hes a radical Tory with an amazing imagination ,‘
Romei, 2010.