Nobel Prize-winning writer contemplates Real Madrid

The Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who will embrace the Nobel Prize for Literature on Friday, hasspoken out from his hotel in Stockholm opposite the decadent "culture of entertainment" which he believes has led to the "banalization, frivolization as well as superficiality" of ? la mode life.

"I consider the audiovisual revolution, which is fantastic from the technological point of view, has introduced the idea which the categorical idea of enlightenment is entertainment," he said.

"Of march enlightenment is also entertainment, but if it is only entertainment, the result is the disappearance of long-range vision as well as deep engrossment for simple questions," he said. "I consider it is the major, major problem."

Three days before he pronounced all this, Vargas Llosa, who was cited by the Nobel committee for his "cartography of structures of energy as well as his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, as well as defeat," was in Madrid, where he delivered the rite kickoff during the Real Madrid-Valencia match. There, after receiving the warm acclaim from the 80,000 like-minded intellectuals on palm to knowledge the evening's fresh pick to the stupidity of mass entertainment, Vargas Llosa furrowed his brow, privileged his thoughts of the detritus of the million half-glimpsed Kate Hudson interviews as well as Queen Latifah movies, addressed himself to long-range vision as well as deep engrossment for simple questions, silently cursed the iPod Touch, squared himself during the ball as if preparing to direct the kick during the banalization as well as frivolization of enlightenment itself, swung back his absolute leg, and.....

*plink!*

Afterwards, asked which Real Madrid player he would similar to to write the novel about, Vargas Llosa responded which Cristiano Ronaldo is the "novelistic character." Ronaldo, looking up from the duplicate of Plato's Parmenides which he likes to study after the win, tucked his quill pen behind his ear, frowned thoughtfully, as well as said, "yes, it's true. I am."

Brian Phillips blogs about soccer during The Run of Play. You can follow him on Twitter.

Images: AP, Real Madrid

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