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Online discussion on Mario Vargas Llosa's Interview

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist was awarded the noble prize for literature in 2010. His most recent novel is “The Neighborhood”. Here I try to point out some ideas which I like the most from his interview for the worldpost by Michael Skafidas, a journalist and professor of comparative literature at City University of New York. I personally believe that  it is right to denounce abuses against woman. As we know that in our society abuses against women are increasing day by day. As mentioned below here, he gave an example of feminist attacked in Nabokov's "Lolita", it is the best novel of 20th century. But feminism now has a kind of problem. It has become very sectarian, very dogmatic, and I think you have to criticize and oppose these trends. For example, recently we have had a big debate in Spain when a group of feminists attacked Nabokov’s “Lolita,” which I think is one of the greatest 20 th  century novels. They attacked it because they c...