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This is the acccptance speech that Mario Vargas Llosa delivered upon receiving the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of Babej-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on May 20, 2013. An internationally acclaimed personality, the Peruvian author has written an impressive series of novels, short stories, dramas, essays of literary criticism, and memoirs. His discourse focuses on the importance of fiction in the evolution of the human race. Imagining fictional worlds is a means for individuals to escape and to complete the dull reality, to live the lives they wanted but they could not live [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Questions whether novels are true or false. Why the Spanish inquisitors banned the publication and importation of novels in the Spanish American colonies; Number of years Spanish Americans only read contraband fiction; Difference between fiction and a newspaper article or a history book.

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The Storyteller is a fascinating novel that emphasises the writing process by telling two different but similar stories -- of an individual and of a community. Memory and fiction are the main coordinates of the book and the antithesis between two ways of thinking give the novel a unique structure. The act of storytelling and the process of writing are different sides of the same act of creation. By writing, the author saves himself from the creator's obsessions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]