Madrid, (Efe) .- left without finish. Ana Maria Matute was the June 25 without finishing his latest novel ‘ family Demons ‘, a narrative that is “pure Matute” in view his son, Juan Pablo, that meets all their universe and obsessions, and a book coming out on the street today.
Y obsessions that guided the literary work of the Catalan writer throughout his life were “miscommunication, misunderstanding, how they could live with close people, relatives or friends with walls silent grudges uncured or betrayal, “as the book says María Paz Ortuño, Professor,” bosom friend “and assistant Matute until the end of his life.
This has been recognized today during the presentation of ‘Family Demons’, published by Destiny, Ortuño own, the woman who spent hours and hours with the writer and handed the manuscript to the computer after she did in her typewriter; first and then an old Olivetti sophisticated Brother.
The presentation of the posthumous book of Matute has served as a tribute to the writer and is held at the Cervantes Institute in the presence of Victor Garcia de Concha, Almudena Grandes, Maria Paz Ortuño, the To publishers, Emili Rosales and Silvia Sese and the presence of the only son of the writer, John Paul Goicoechea and his wife.
Efe Goicoechea has recognized that there will still be a surprise for the writer. “We are reviewing material and Mari Paz Ortuño and not come out a novel, but there are very interesting things,” said his son, who became his shadow in recent times, when the writer could not walk and carried in his wheelchair.
“Family Demons”, the author of “Forgotten King Gudu” back or closes the circle of “uninhabited paradise”, a story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, on July 36, in a small town in central Spain, where the protagonist, Eva, returns home after the burning of the convent where she was a novice.
A house with many symbolic characters and where industry secrets, grudges, silence and repressed emotions, and where, despite the loneliness and difficulties, love breaks out.
A realist novel? Pere Gimferrer asks in the foreword of the book, where he also replies, all this is real, but not necessarily realistic; very deeply true, but not necessarily true or accurate as a chronic … “.
” All in it is very true, but this truth is in itself “, writes Gimferrer. This sense, the writer Almudena Grandes, a great admirer and friend of Matute, who scored one of the best writers in Spanish language of the twentieth century, “better to say one of the best writers of the twentieth century”, exclaimed that “hopefully this novel serve to re-titles “and” Dead Children “, a book that considers” the best novel of the twentieth century. “
Great, who stressed” honesty and consistency “in writing Matute, “and even on your skin,” said that “Family Demons”, the reader can finish to your liking the story of the protagonist, Eva.
Ortuño has revealed that the novel was about to be called “Vertigo” by dizziness that gripped the writer in the last months of his life, to remember the sense of humor that had the author of “The Abel” to the end of his life.
Matute’s assistant recalled how the work was growing, how the author worked until the end of his life, he was a perfectionist and as he corrected everything until the last minute.
“‘The Art of Fugue’, one of the best works of JS Bach, is unfinished. Musicians when interpreting stop playing in the last note he wrote, no one has added anything, and needless. matue last word written was ‘Mada’ may not want or could not write more .. “concludes Ortuño in the epilogue of the book.
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