Analysis Of Vega's Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard In San Salvador

In class we had to read a book called “Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador” by Horacio Castellano Moya written in 1997. This book consists of one main character Vega, who is an art history professor that comes back to El Salvador to attend his mother’s funeral in exchange for his fair share of her will she left behind for him and his brother. While being in El Salvador for fifteen days Vega meets up with his so called friend named Moya at a bar called La Lumbre. They decided to meet up in the evening in regards to bar being a pleasant time during the hours from five to seven to discuss Vega’s anger towards El Salvador. However, Vega ended up going into a total rant about how much he despites the violence, political corruption, and the …show more content…
Vega returned to El Salvador after eighteen years and saw how the education system had got worse due to no one wanting to study literature because business was the new thing and not forgetting how the university building structures needs remodeling. Vega had pure hate towards the new people he would encounter. The reason why is because they had the urge to act like soldiers because becoming a soldier meant that you were at the top. Vega could not stand the idea of people feeling happy about being in the military, which meant they would have to kill other people. As a result, to the government who made El Salvador in the place they are now with regards to not stopping the war, but putting more fuel in the fire which lead to multiple innocent people to die. Not forgetting how Vega himself is a hypocrite because of the that he only returned to El Salvador to get his mother’s will. He did not go back because she died and he wanted to attend her funeral, but more so to obey the only rule she had which was for him to come to the funeral in order to receive the money. In regards to all of his issues with El Salvador he believes he was the best person in that country, currently with only having cared about him and not concerning anyone else. On the other side of this argument what if Vega is not delusional and in reality this is currently how society feels about the country. He could be a liar, although this novel Moya wrote could be his own personal story and he could have made Vega up because he did not want to put himself out like that. “El Asco” is an important novel because everything could be true. In El Salvador there are people who blame the government for the corruption, although finding