The Anthill | Máximo Huerta will no longer shut up

Doña Leo is

's dream come true

.

Or, perhaps, we should call him the Hugh Grant of Buñol.

No,

has not gone to the movies nor is he going to star in a new version of

, but that's where the shots go.

's newly opened bookstore

where the writer, journalist, presenter and, ultimately, former minister, spends his afternoons doing the same thing that Hugh Grant did: "I'm like a pharmacist, I tell the people, take this book or this one will come in handy".

last night

, to promote that dream, to talk about the fifth edition of his novel Adiós pequeño and to... to remove stones, many stones, that he still carried in his backpack or, rather, in the portfolio, in that of a former minister.

I don't know if

last night

with the intention of unloading and releasing what he has never said in four years, but he had to be very comfortable.

Or, perhaps, with the opening of

he wants to finish closing a door that for the writer was a nightmare, but real, the kind you don't wake up from, the ones you have to go through and endure the downpour until it clears.

Last night, he cleared.

"It has cost me much more to open the bookstore than when I decided to become a minister," the interview began, warning that

was important, but dodging bullets was over.

If you had to talk about that, she talks to herself.

"

. All you have to do to open it! But it is much more rewarding.

It gave the feeling last night when

spoke about

, that

is much more than a bookstore.

Not only because of the bookstore that she wanted it to be, for all readers and for all books -"If a woman wants to read Meghan Maxwell because she likes her to read it. Just like in the fruit shop there are potatoes, tomatoes, oranges. You can have custard apples out of season, but you also have to have tomatoes-; nor because it has opened it on the main street of Buñol, where La Tomatina passes on the last Wednesday of every August -"It's true that I didn't think, it doesn't have a blind"- ; nor because he chose Buñol, his home, to be close to his mother

-.

But because

gives the feeling that it is also the catharsis and resurrection of

after having gone through an ordeal that he has talked about many times, but about which until last night he had not told everything, everything and everything.

Before

opened the melon,

was already opening the channel.

When

asked him why he says his mother would have been happier if he had not been born -hard, eh?-,

was already sending signals that he was not going to soften anything: "My mother, Clara, would have been more happy without me. I would have traveled, I would have seen other places, I would have known other men. My mother would have been much happier without me."

Now the center of Máximo Huerta's universe is her, Clara.

Her mother is very ill and the writer and bookseller has transferred her entire life to Buñol to be with her and to take care of her.

Máximo Huerta and what he did not want to stay

"She is very bad. In the morning I am her brother and in the afternoon I am her son. She has undergone several operations, but the tumor, the cancer, the dementia. I went to live in Buñol to take care of her and so as not to have a future penalty for not having taken enough care of her (...) Because growing old is only for the brave. Getting old

. You lose friends, sight, size, you only lose. Losing is the most difficult thing in life, that's why growing old is for the brave Not for me, but for others.

, "he said without leaving his smile, but with that emotion of doing what he thinks he should do, but also suffering.

They talked about hangovers, getting older, that drinking two glasses of wine with 50 is not the same as drinking it with 20. That you can no longer mix, that in order not to die the next day you have to take omeoprazol and whatever, that When you go for the third glass of wine, the hangover from the first has already started.

And the time came.

With humor and irony,

brought the matter up.

He had already done it at the beginning of the interview, but the time had come for

to close the wound tightly closed.

"You are haunted by the move of having been a minister for a week. Out of curiosity, did they pay you for at least the entire month?" asked the presenter of

.

And like the one that opens the gates of a dam, the water began to come out until it emptied the reservoir of

and filled that of another, that of

.

Four years ago they asked him to shut up, not to speak, the silence is over.

"No, I think the corresponding thing, a thousand euros. Many people believe that you have a lifetime salary. I gave up everything.

. I wanted to digest slowly and painfully.. I was left alone with the briefcase that is at home," the journalist said.

But it was not the only thing he told, far from it.

When

asked him if he jumped off the cliff,

and the shame of others began: "They threw me. I jumped off a cliff with what I want and I'm passionate about it.

. I went up and they told me at 6:00 p.m. you have the press conference. It took until 7:00 p.m. They only called me to say, 'no, not yet'".

He repeated what during these four years since his resignation he has repeated so many times,

, and he did not say it only once during the interview, he said it another time Because even though more than four years have passed, because even though

claims to have overcome it, the damage is still there and so are the doubts and theories.

. "

The surreal conversation with Pedro Sánchez on the day of his resignation

Máximo Huerta

believes and, furthermore, members of the PSOE made it known to him after his resignation, that he was a scapegoat, someone who served as an example without thinking about what he was going to cause in that person: "Important people of the PSOE told me It was a very Macron technique.

. If you don't want him, why offer him a position after he resigned? If you don't want someone in

as a director, then do you go to put on camera? If you don't want it, you don't want it. And

.

They told me to be quiet for a month.

I was silent because I could not speak.

I went to London and at the Alicante airport I fell when I saw the covers, I fainted and the airport police came.

And they called me 'minister', and I said 'the last thing I want is for you to call me a minister'.

."

And when the media storm passes, "others arrive and do you more damage."

," he blurted out without hindrance.

Because if something made clear last night in

is that all that, plus the conversation before the resignation with

, who is a bread and dip, was the wounds that remained: "I lost all my self-esteem. I believed it was worthless."

He went to psychologists and psychiatrists, and when it seemed that he was beginning to see the light, which was at the Goya gala in which he participated in a brief sketch with Andreu Buenafuente, precisely about his resignation,

.

"

. Politics, not because I didn't even know it. I went up and down as in the Dragon Kan. I received affection of all colors from politics. I recovered the affection with the readers. Go out, look at the faces and notice that they were there.

. I got used to that radar like my father got used to his limp and forgot about it. I began to forget about whispers."

The question came that was going to put the culmination of

's purgatory in

.

I don't know if she was prepared, if it had been agreed or if it just happened, but when

asked her about her last conversation with

, Máximo Huerta's story could be used for the script of a film by Álex de la Iglesia.

I don't know if it's like

or

.

Máximo Huerta

took the car to Moncloa, with his resignation speech on his mobile and talking with his friend and also a journalist Marta Sánchez to see what she thought.

When he got there he went in and "they told me to wait in a room."

A good while later he went in to talk to a newcomer to Moncloa

and told him that he was leaving, that nothing was happening.

"What was curious to me," he continued, "is that there was not a 'confío' or anything. He began to talk about how everyone ends badly in politics,

. And I thought that I am here to resign. He had already told me in that talk, in which he asked me to keep quiet, about 'what will history say about me'.

.

And she's already there."

From there,

went to the Ministry, gave the press conference, went home and asked his mother to make him zucchini with eggs.

. "

And, suddenly, he receives a message because he has to deliver the wallet: "I thought, look, let me take it by myself."

But

was already the surreal conversation the day before with Pedro Sánchez, added to the surrealism that there was no portfolio for the new minister and that, therefore, Máximo had to fictitiously hand over his to later pick it up.

"Then I went with my mother and my dog ​​to eat some bravas."

The worst was yet to come.

But that's over, now he lives by his books, his

and his mother.

Politics remains in the trunk of bad memories.

A trunk that

closed last night and threw the key into the sea.

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