The age of anger, the novel on the table of the triple crime of Elche

• Confession A shotgun and a shot

The thread that leads from artistic references to violent behavior is a delicate matter that appears and reappears since the existence of popular culture:

to the beatings of children who have seen

from the emulators of

to that Joker fan who entered the premiere of

in a Denver theater armed and murdered 12 people.

That cross has just fallen on Fernando J. López, a former high school teacher and writer of novels, a finalist for the Nadal Prize in 2010 thanks

(Destinqo), the book that now appears in the plot of the triple crime of Elche del last Tuesday.

The student who murdered his mother, his father and his brother after an argument over his poor grades had read

as part of his educational program at the Vicente Verdú Journalist Institute in Elche, according to the newspaper

.

As the novel is an investigation into a parricide, it is inevitable to trace a relationship

that, moreover, is on the news agenda.

, which in addition to being a novel, has been for years a play adapted for La Joven Compañía (the show passed through Elche), will premiere its television version on Wednesday in a series produced by Atresmedia.

A summary:

part of a journalist who investigates an incomprehensible crime.

A seemingly well-adjusted teenager murders his father and leaves his brother badly injured.

Crime seems to be a manifestation of the capriciousness of a pure, unconditioned evil.

But the journalist's investigation begins to find

.

First, school failure.

Not the particular failure of the murderer, but that of the system, weighed down by the apathy of many teachers, not all of them.

Second, adolescent brutality, the pressure on the different.

López, born in 1977 and a teenager in the 1990s, has explained that one of his purposes in writing

was to explain that the violence of that time never disappeared;

he only found new ways to express himself.

... Nothing that hasn't been experienced in any high school.

The story of

was based on a collage of testimonies, of voices that were building a vast portrait of the parricidal child.

Also in what had been noble in his life: friendship, intimacy... There was not, at the end of the road, an acquittal, condemnatory or comforting conclusion, only a reflection of human complexity.

Including

from him.

The age of anger

had a moral value in a very modern sense.

He spoke of the loneliness of the weak, of the misunderstanding of the system towards individuals and of the persistence of prejudices that seemed from another era.

The Elche crime will henceforth be its negative.

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