Mario Vargas Llosa: The storyteller With Told this novel, Mario Vargas Llosa the Indians in the Amazon created a monument of the Machiguenga, a primitive people, which lives off of the civilized world in the Peruvian jungle.
The narrator is located in Florence, wants to devote a few months Dante and Machiavelli, and Renaissance painting. But his plan gets into trouble, because he discovered in a gallery photographs that take him back mentally in their native jungle. Pictures of half-naked people, canoes, huts built on stilts. What a coincidence that here in Florence he discovered photographs of the Machiguenga, these Indians, for which he is interested for a long time since he has with his fellow student, a budding anthropologist, exchanged over them. That was 1958. Meanwhile, the college friend Saul Zuratas is considered lost. In 1981, the narrator of the novel goes on trips to the Peruvian jungle to come to the mystery of machiguengischen storyteller on the track.
Mario Vargas Llosa be long in coming, until he comes to the narrator of the story Machiguenga on the track. And that's good. In the novel to a geheimnisumwitternden form, ask the reader constantly has to if he ever exist or perhaps a form of Native American myths. For me as a reader is left open whether the storyteller to an invention of Mario Vargas Llosa is. The only certainty is that Machiguenga have developed a language and have their own myths, of which the Roman stores ample testimony. The author has read myths and songs of the Machiguenga gained from Padre Joaquin Barriales. Helps the recipient is given the opportunity to delve into the minds and imaginations of the people. Of course, that's pretty strange when we read the civilized reader myths of primitive peoples, because our thinking is not comparable to this, but here we can even sniff ethnology. Subtle is Vargas Llosa, if he is a Christian myth Einflluss have zealous Christians of the effort is not spared in the jungle to proselytize. "It was the truth, son of Trasurinchi he is the breath of Trasurunchi he will be, he is Trasurinchi own all three together, so."
The major theme of the novel is the impact of civilization on the indigenous peoples in the Amazon. Civilization threatens the primitives. Should these people not just let them live the way they have always lived, or it is a blessing or a curse and a blessing to bring civilization, that is, they get out of nature? The big issue is discussed between Peru Saúl Zuratas and narrator.
Posted by Mario Vargas Llosa
If sixteen million Peruvians were the natural resources of three-quarters of their territory without so that the sixty or achzigtausend Amazon Indians to shoot each other calmly continue with arrows, shrinking heads produce and worship the boa constrictor.?
Even this quote makes clear how deeply this issue hits the nerve of Peruvians. This novel is considered by the Peruvian Varguritas' 
novels. We who have always been in civilization live far away from the jungle wearing those issues not in consciousness. For me it was very fascinating to dive into the world of Machiguenga. Such a novel sharpens awareness of other cultures.
