The remains of Mario Vargas Llosa deceased this Sunday in Peru (Lima) at 89, They have been incinerated in an intimate ceremony and that has been attended by his relatives and closest friends, according to local media.
In this way, the family has fulfilled the last will of the writer, according to local media, who have photographed the three children at the exit of the crematorium and have shown how Álvaro Vargas Llosa and Gonzalo Vargas Llosa wore two polls.
The funeral car moved the novelist’s body since his residence in Barranco, where he spent his last days surrounded by his family. Outside the property representatives of various media and some admirers gathered who wanted to accompany the last journey of the Arequipa writer symbolically, according to the newspaper ‘El Comercio’.
Hours before the incineration, Álvaro Vargas Llosa thanked the signs of affection to his father and asked the media and citizens to respect privacy. “We have agreed to try to carry this duel in intimacy, so we are watching my father at home, instead of doing so in a public place, “ Álvaro commented according to ‘El Peruano’.
The Government of Peru has declared a national grieving day in memory of the outstanding intellectual, and Arequipa, its hometown, has arranged regional duel for two days.
A shared loss in the world
Personalities of the world of Spanish and international politics have fired the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima (Peru) at the age of 89, which they have described as “one of the best writers in the Spanish language”, in addition to an “tireless defender of freedom”
The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, fired the winning writer of the Nobel Prize for Literature thanking him as a reader for his “Immense work”, with “key books to understand our time”and for being a “universal teacher of the word.”
“On behalf of the Government of Spain, I send my condolences to the family, friends and the great community of readers and readers worldwide,” he said in a message on social network X, collected by Europa Press.
For his part, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, also regretted the loss of the writer, who has considered that it is a “universal figure and one of the greats of universal literature in Spanish.” The minister has assured that Vargas Llosa was a writer who “has meant so much” for Spanish culture and literature.
At the international level, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, dismissed the writer ensuring that he had his “homeland” in the French country. “With his work, he opposed freedom of fanaticism, the irony to dogma, a fierce ideal to the storms of the century,” Macron said in an X message collected by Europa Press.
In addition, he added that the Nobel Prize came his “love” for French literature and his “universal” through the French academy, which the writer agreed in February 2023-pending to receive the denomination of ‘immortal’ that the academics of this institution have. In this way, he was the first immortal in history that did not write a line in the French language. Macron has concluded by stating that the “literary genius” had his homeland in France.