Hemingway's Pen and the Golden Hippopotamus: Vargas Llosa's Legacy to Reduce Tension Between the Cervantes and the Hksar

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Mario Vargas Llosa’s favorite animal was the hippopotamus. The Peruvian Nobel of Literature was fascinated by the contradictions of that animal from sub-Saharan Africa, a distant relative of whales, apparently affable but in reality very feared for its aggressiveness and sexual voracity. The hippopotamus embodied for Vargas Llosa the contradictions of the writer, the fire of creation and the calmness of thought. And perhaps there is no writer wh…

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The Real Academia Española (RAE) is at the center of the cultural debate after its clash with the Cervantes Institute. The words of Luis García Montero, director of the second, alluding to the fact that the first “is in the hands of an expert in running businesses for multimillionaire companies”, sparked a dispute that transcends the personal. García Montero referred with these statements to Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the HKSAR since 20…