Álvaro Vargas Llosaeldest son of Mario Vargas LlosaHe has shared moving details about the relationship between his father and his mother, Patricia Llosain the last days of the writer. In an emotional story, the essayist explained how his father returned to Lima, already aware of his illness, to spend his last days in the company of his family, in the city where he grew up and where he always felt supported by the love of Patricia. There, the writer would die April 13, 2025surrounded by its closest beings, in their home in Barranco.
The relationship between Mario Vargas Llosa y Patricia Llosa She has deep roots and started when she was only 15 years old, and he 25. After her separation from Julia Urquidi, Mario He started a romance with his cousin. In 1965, after several years of coexistence, the couple married. His love story was unique, marked by Patricia’s unconditional support to Nobel Prize for Literatureespecially during the years in which he wrote some of his most important works.
Patricia Llosa played a fundamental role in the literary career of Mario Vargas Llosabeing your constant support during the most prolific years of your professional life. Together, they formed a family with three children: Álvaro, Gonzalo y Morgana. Despite this solid link, the relationship was not exempt from difficulties. Over time, the ups and downs were inevitable and, after almost 50 years of marriage, the writer initiated a relationship with Isabel Preyslera Spanish socialite.
Although the romance between Mario Vargas Llosa e Isabel Preysler It was brief, its impact on Patricia Llosa It was significant. She was one of the most affected by the situation, loading with the weight of the break and the years of unresolved tensions that marked their relationship.
In 2022, when his romance with the ‘Queen of Hearts’ came to an end, Mario Vargas Llosaaware that the connection with Patricia Llosa He had always been his pillar, he did not hesitate to look for her. Despite the turbulence, the difficult years and the tensions that marked their relationship, both achieved Heal old wounds y They reconciled.
When facing the hardness of his illness, Mario Vargas Llosa He decided to return to Lima to spend his last days with his family. In this return, the company Patricia Llosa It was crucial, since, as mentioned Álvaro Vargas Llosa In an interview with La Nación, the Peruvian writer was exhausted and needed the warmth and support of those who knew him better.
“He was already very fatigued, he needed a type of company, structure, of help, which was dictated where most of the family was. Once he was there, the rest of the family that we did not live in Lima made innumerable amount of trips to arrive and be with him as long as possible. There was a permanent presence of the family in Lima”He said.
One of the most emotional moments of recent days was when Mario Vargas Llosa He approached the stages of his novels in Lima And he had farewell dialogues with each family member, including Patricia Llosa.
“Each of us, my mother, my brothers and I, was living this final stage in a very intimate way with him, in farewell dialogues (…) The intimacy that each one had with him is one of the most precious treasures we will keep,” he added.
Despite the media separation of 2015, in its last days Mario Vargas Llosa was fully reconciled with Patricia Llosa. In one of those intimate conversations that marked his farewell, the author of ‘The city and dogs‘He asked his ex -wife if he was still in love. Álvaro Vargas Llosahis son said that although he could not hear the answer, the expression of love between both It was as clear as the gestures and small daily acts that shared those days.
“It made him happy to have my mother by his side, as well as his three children and the grandchildren who could arrive on time,” Álvaro recalled, in dialogue with El Comercio.
Aware that time was exhausted, Mario Vargas Llosa He stopped paying attention to the news of the world, such as the death of Alberto Fujimori, and chose to focus his attention on what he loved most: literature, his family and, especially, Patricia Llosa. “I didn’t pay too much attention to today … I lived rather locked in a distant mental worldexcept when my mother was, my brothers and me, ”confessed her son.
The reconciliation between Mario Vargas Llosa y Patricia Llosa In those last moments it was a reaffirmation of the deep love that always united them. After overcoming the difficulties that marked their relationship, the novelist left this world next to the woman he shared over 50 years of his life.
