Luisgé Martín wins the Herralde Prize for an erotic novel about infidelity and desire

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"Yes, I am perverse in my literature", admits Luisgé Martín in a tone between mischievous and ironic.

A perversity that translates to 'One Hundred Nights', an erotic novel about infidelity and desire, about sexuality, the (unspeakable) forms of love and, ultimately, the human condition.

"The problem with

is that there is less than it should, like sex. It is always approached with deficiencies, from the margins, from inexperience," says Martín, who this afternoon has received the Herralde Novel Prize for this experimental book, which are three novels in one.

Luisgé Martín faces

social

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The germ: a study published in the press in which 55% of men and 46% of women declare themselves unfaithful.

"But what happens with the rest? Have they really told the truth? What if a private detective followed them to show that they had lied?"

'One Hundred Nights' includes the cameo of several writer friends of Martín with 'infidel stories': the files of the detectives who prove the infidelities.

and

have participated in this "exercise of literary promiscuity"

.

In addition to these metaliterary Russian dolls and the exploration of sexuality, there is a plot of a crime novel: the protagonist of the book Irene, a private investigator who has studied psychology in Chicago, also faces the death of her boyfriend, in a thriller for solve his murder.

"'One Hundred Nights' connects perfectly with what my literature is:

" acknowledges the writer.

And he warns that infidelity (or the impossibility of fidelity) is much closer than you think: "From the king to the beggar and never better said.

Juan Carlos is a novel of infidelity in itself ".

It is not the first time that Luisgé Matín addresses sex explicitly in his literature.

"In this novel there is

, that of the protagonist, Irene. In 'La mujer de sombra' there was sadomasochism and even pederasty, here it is more heterodox ...", he admits.

In his research on infidelity, Martín emphasizes that "at a higher cultural level, not only in studies, there is greater sophistication in sexuality; because sexuality is a refined cultural manifestation".

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