COEXISTENCE WITH OTHERNESS IN THE TRIADS EMERGENT IN VARGAS LLOSA’S NOVELS
COEXISTENCE WITH OTHERNESS IN THE TRIADS EMERGENT IN VARGAS LLOSA’S NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Escape in the fiction of Mario Vargas Llosa turns out to be a perpetual fight with one's own demons against the background of the encounter with the other, in a universe marked by a bizarre relationship between civilization vs. barbarism and marasmus. The universe of the novel, for Vargas Llosa, nonchalantly reflects the monster, the deep human nature in the winding process of disaggregation under the lecturer's magnifying glass. Encounters with the alterity are disturbed and amassed again by the social fronde, characteristic of the Latin American space. The world of Vargasllosian characters plays a dance of triadic reflections that radiates from a family axis: father - mother - child. The family triad is socially reflected by the institutions which interfere as a triad, apparently separated, but in fact influencing each other: army - church – brothel. The Indian, the white, the mestizo also form a triad like in a family axis. The spatial relationship contains the mountains – the forest - the coast, therefore it is modelled as well on the tripartite dimension of the world. In some exceptional situations the codes of the alter universe remain hidden. An allied alter can appear, too. In the jungle and in the mountains, an augmented reality takes place, where the real is intertwined with the magical and the mythical.

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