Literature as an Interpretative Method for Socio-Political Scenarios

The Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa explains the complex relationship between literature, politics and society, pointing out how literary works might prove an effective interpretative key of the socio-political scenarios, provided to submit them to a detailed and culturally appropriate analysis under a methodological perspective, as a form of a narrative based social simulation, of better quality, the more it proves the author’s writing skills, by which it is possible to date back to a wider and more plausible scenario analysis. Despite the paradox of “an activity that comes from loneliness, by an outcast”, literature arises from the social and political universe because its object, coming from an unraveling series of plots taken from real result of imagination or the combination of these two elements in different degrees, consists in situations and in social dynamics arising from the relationship between the characters. The works, in order to be properly interpreted, are to be contextualized, starting from the ideological issue that must be approached by two points of view, objective and subjective.