昨晚我们津津有味地解读着1982年诺贝尔文学奖得主马尔克斯的《百年孤独》；今天另一位拉美作家马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨登上了2010年诺贝尔的领奖台。
Vargas Llosa is the first South American winner of the $1.5 million Nobel Prize in literature since Colombia's Garcia Marquez in 1982, and the first Spanish-language writer to win since Mexico's Octavio Paz in 1990.
下面摘录获奖讲演的其中两段：Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass by, and die. It compensates for the reverses and frustrations real life inflicts on us, and because of it we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings, principally those of us who generate more doubts than certainties and confess our perplexity before subjects like transcendence, individual and collective destiny, the soul, the sense or senselessness of history, the to and fro of rational knowledge.
Fiction is more than an entertainment, more than an intellectual exercise that sharpens one’s sensibility and awakens a critical spirit. It is an absolute necessity so that civilization continues to exist, renewing and preserving in us the best of what is human.
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大家知道吗，这两名诺奖得主还曾打过架：
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b89dba50100nsub.html
1976年，《百年孤独》作者马尔克斯被拍下这张照片，他左眼乌青，鼻梁带伤，袭击他的正是本届诺奖得主略萨。没有人确切知道30多年前到底发生了什么，他俩对此也是讳莫如深。巴尔加斯·略萨曾出版一本赞美加西亚·马尔克斯的专著《弑神者的历史》。但在闹翻之后，巴尔加斯·略萨便不允许那本书再版，直到去年才同意将它收入其全集。
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