tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post8450530555716595159..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Argentinean "Intellectuals" Against Vargas LlosaClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-72930686662794971042011-03-05T20:13:25.070-05:002011-03-05T20:13:25.070-05:00Agreed... "For totalitarians entrenched in p...Agreed... "For totalitarians entrenched in power everywhere ..." sounds better.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01876428236380705777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-75024217266470516512011-03-05T19:02:12.529-05:002011-03-05T19:02:12.529-05:00Thank you for a great link!
"For the lefties...Thank you for a great link!<br /><br />"For the lefties entrenched in power here, there is good censorship and bad censorship, and also of course good and bad dictatorships."<br /><br />-Not only for the lefties and not only there. :-)Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-23466690833759678912011-03-05T18:56:54.141-05:002011-03-05T18:56:54.141-05:00It's an interesting exercise to compare the la...It's an interesting exercise to compare the language in the letter by those "intellectuals", to the language used by the Argentinian military dictatorship in 1978 when they prohibited one of Vargas Llosa's masterpieces (La Tia Julia Y El Escribidor). Essentially is the same. <a href="http://articulos-interesantes.blogspot.com/2011/03/dictadura-y-dictablanda.html" rel="nofollow">Check it out here</a> (sorry, in Spanish only).<br /><br />For the lefties entrenched in power here, there is good censorship and bad censorship, and also of course good and bad dictatorships.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01876428236380705777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-41588285952662482772011-03-05T13:29:18.759-05:002011-03-05T13:29:18.759-05:00We have created a group and a community paged in F...We have created a group and a community paged in Facebook called "Bienvenido Vargas Llosa a Buenos Aires". We kindly invite you to subscribe and show support.Eduardo Montes-Bradleyhttp://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_150382671688618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-62502892212913242022011-03-02T18:35:37.077-05:002011-03-02T18:35:37.077-05:00Welcome to the lettered city!
Ol.Welcome to the lettered city!<br />Ol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-8957401906419182822011-03-02T14:22:00.661-05:002011-03-02T14:22:00.661-05:00I am not surprised by Horacio Gonzalez. He is a pe...I am not surprised by Horacio Gonzalez. He is a pedantic clown, and his essays are incomprehensible. I could have expected it from Feinmann, although after reading "Timote", I had a newly found respect from him.Spanish profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248530328973177920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-77009744952985779392011-03-02T13:38:53.934-05:002011-03-02T13:38:53.934-05:00I think Spanish prof is right and they are just je...I think Spanish prof is right and they are just jealous. I'm also jealous of many of my colleagues' success, but at least I try not to exhibit my envy in such a public fashion that it would make me look ridiculous.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-83063732946794103192011-03-02T13:36:30.776-05:002011-03-02T13:36:30.776-05:00Even the president of Argentina has had to ask her...Even the president of Argentina has had to ask her supporters to withdraw the letter of protest against Vargas Llosa. It was in international embarrassment. HIs neoliberalism makes him very unpopular with Latin American intellectuals to the left of him (almost all of them), but asking that he not appear at the Book Fair was pretty ridiculous.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-27211291707195822932011-03-02T13:25:26.092-05:002011-03-02T13:25:26.092-05:00You are absolutely right in everything you say. Is...You are absolutely right in everything you say. Is it because people are afraid? I see the same tendency in our Russian-speaking countries where artists have this tradition of sticking their tongues so far up the politicians' asses that it's scary.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-16645684506984834272011-03-02T13:02:46.147-05:002011-03-02T13:02:46.147-05:00"Since when do the "intellectuals" ..."Since when do the "intellectuals" ally themselves with politicians who are in power in order to hound a writer for expressing his views?"<br /><br />In Latin America, since always. Of course it's nuanced, but you have examples since at least the XIX century. In the XXth century, see Mexico and the uneasy relationship of intellectuals with PRI, the "affair" Padilla and those attacking writers for being against/for Fidel Castro, etc. <br /><br />That being said, what the Argentinean "intellectuals" are doing is pathetic, and in many cases is just personal envy at how good Vargas Llosa can write. And Vargas Llosa opinion about the Kirchner is equally Manichean.Spanish profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248530328973177920noreply@blogger.com