See to watch. Look to write. Write to get the attention of something, about someone. And then, there each one. Lorenzo Silva combines his novels with an obligation: send through the website of this newspaper a quiet reading, after the news scare, about something that has disturbed him. And so it takes 10 years, more than 500 texts. And those who come.
"In a way it is a count of my days or, rather, of my weeks," he says. He does not want to appear in these writings, he prefers to glimpse, suggest; although he is aware that portraying the world is a way of self-portraiting. Telling about the neighbor ends up splashing you.
And already put to peck between his texts is difficult to choose. You can look at the prologue and get carried away by the title of the book that collects so many texts, Where one falls (Destination). Or open it at random (1,056 pages) and then follow. It is not easy to stop. Read one, fancy another. Like cherries Or, to open your mouth, you can follow the author's suggestions:
- Three thousand meters at night: «For being the first one that appeared with the name of the series, vida.zip, and being an emblematic history of the wars of this century».
- The humility of the giants: «Chronicle and at the same time a tribute to a concert by Leonard Cohen».
- Niyireth : « For disputing the name of a dead female soldier in Afghanistan, one of those many anonymous casualties».
- Catalunya 2035: «A dystopia about an independent Catalonia written jokingly and that many people read seriously».
- Harvard lifeguard: "For the powerful, real metaphor embodied by one of the Boston marathon killers."
Lorenzo Silva is not one of those who have a notebook in hand pointing out what is happening to him, neither in this nor in his novels. Trust your memory and the axiom "the important thing is never forgotten . " Always, for lack of subject, you can pull the thread of the suggestions that come to you, as happened with The hunted predator (abuses of a lawyer with minors) or While outside the noise (the body of a child in a trunk).
«I wanted to combine literature (from which I come and where I am), and journalism (to which thanks to her I arrived and where from time to time I am). And also write down in some way all the novels that occur to me and that will not give me time to write. I have tried to avoid opinion, although I have not always succeeded. I prefer to cause perplexity, stupor, fright, tenderness. That which produces life, when you succeed, without more, to show it as it is, ”says Silva.
In so many texts there is everything, of course; even for anger, as in The Messi Doctrine , in which the text ends: "It can never be, never, never of the Jamases, that the law is different because of the fact of being called Messi . " It was about the accusation of a tax offense. Today, some time later, Silva adds: «I practiced law, I know cases of people who, because of less harmful behaviors for the community and their fellow citizens, have set foot in jail. I was revolted by the way in which the misdeed of the star was minimized, especially by fans.
Also football, but in a very different way and not only, you have everything, and you have nothing: the phrase of Diego Simeone when he appeared after the defeat of Atlético against Real Madrid in the final of the European Cup on May 24, 2014 in the time of discount it serves Lorenzo Silva to offer a catalog of ethics to his son: «Do not be responsible for your failures, never, to another before yourself (...) become owner of your defeats (.. .) to beat you, but never give up ».
And Catalonia, of course. Lorenzo Silva knows first-hand the situation in Catalonia. He lived seven years between Barcelona and Madrid between 2008 and 2015, the year he returned to the capital for family issues. But it comes and goes because his wife's family is Catalan. «I am deeply sorry for the situation in Catalonia, where I have family ties, and that I feel at the mercy of a group of insolvent people obsessed with a failed project while disregarding the most elementary, from health to the safety of citizens, and I do not speak of ears . Without going any further, my wife's nonagenaria grandmother has been a victim of the violent crime that is at ease in Badalona, despite repeated complaints from neighbors: she saved the life of a miracle ».
On a possible pact between the PSOE and Esquerra, he states: «It would seem like a good solution if the independentists were willing to rectify and offer loyalty to the State; if they persevered in imposing their agenda of maximums, or in demonizing the rule of law by defending themselves and defending the law and the rights of the Spaniards, it would not make any sense.
- Have the successive Spanish governments had any fault?
- They have made mistakes of all kinds: from reacting to the independence sentiment with a rage that led to challenge statutes and laws that were accepted in other autonomous communities (a truly sensational clumsiness) to offer in exchange for votes advantageous transactions for nationalism without guaranteeing He changed his loyalty to the state. Rajoy, who is so badly talked about, was faced with the disaster resulting from all those mistakes and did what he could badly; nothing brilliant, but perhaps it must be recognized, over time, that it avoided a tragedy that was not far from happening. Anyway, this is the least. The main thing is that we have not built a project in Spain that can compete persuasively against the chimera of self-determination, which does not even need to be rational to arouse the accession of citizens increasingly disconnected from the common project. That is what must be offered to that refractory half of the Catalans, and to those who feel Spanish too, in addition to telling them the truth about the costs and penalties of the break; the truth that the Scots were told the week before their referendum but instead they were not able to tell the British before the Brexit consultation ».
Lorenzo Silva is now working with a novel by his character Beviclaqua, «which will be the tenth of the series (and the twelfth book, telling the two stories). It will also serve to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the characters (the first novel, although it was not published until 98, I wrote it in 1995). I will also adjust with her one of the outstanding accounts of the character, his experience of youth in the Basque Country, towards the end of the 80s, because the crime he investigates this time will take him to Gipuzkoa lands, where some of his ghosts await him ».
Meanwhile, he recommends some cuts of Where one falls:
- The man of the rickshaw : «A picture collected in the streets of Calcutta».
- Spanish Gigoló: «Chronicle of a cyberstata that ends in a comic story».
- The finger of Sykes: «For being a memory to the man who unintentionally or knowingly ruined the Middle East».
- A girl walks alone: «Perhaps the most chilling story, about that girl who was lost at night walking on the train track» ...
Cherries of all flavor.
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