2011: another trip to
fiction "(...) In any case, one thing is universally known: the fiction, that other reality invented by man from his experience as lived and mingled with the Yeast their unfulfilled desires and imagination, with us as our guardian angel since there in the depths of prehistory, began the winding road that, after millennia, it would take to travel to the stars, to dominate the atom and impressive triumphs in the realm of knowledge and destructive brutality, to uncover human rights, freedom, to create the sovereign individual. Probably none of these discoveries and developments in all domains of experience would have been possible if, looking at our back millions of years ago, there we discovered to our ancestors from the time of the cave and the club, given to the naive and child initiative surely when, in the finest hour of panic, the dark night, pressed against other human bodies for warmth, were put to wander, to travel mentally, before the expiration of the dream, a different world, a life less arduous, less risk, or the most awards and accomplishments that allowed lived reality. This mental journey was, is, the principle of the best that ever happened to human society ... (...) "Mario Vargas Llosa
in The Journey to fiction. The world of Juan Carlos Onetti. Alfaguara, Montevideo, 2009.
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