четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

In China, Vargas Llosa criticizes authoritarianism

BEIJING (AP) — Authoritarian governments corrupt society, Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa told students in China, where state media covered his speech without mentioning his political comments.

The Peruvian writer spoke Tuesday at Shanghai International Studies University, which named him an honorary professor.

Without mentioning China directly, he said he wanted to show in his 1969 novel "Conversation in the Cathedral" ''how a dictatorial and authoritarian government corrupts all the society" and "effectively poisons the less political activities, those activities that are further from politics, corrupting and degrading them."

"Politics should not be left only in the …

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