Barcelona (Spain) .- “I’ve spent half my life saying no”, this phrase sums up the writer Juan Marse his life, now collected in “While happiness comes” written by José María Cuenca after six years of research and interviews with the Barcelona author biography.
“I know by writing me explain, I have great verbal ability, I’m not a silver tongue and, indeed, in relation to work I do not like to talk much about the job, “said today Marsé about their negative continuous in Barcelona (northeastern Spain) during the presentation of the biography.
” While happiness comes “(Anagram) is the response from Cuenca to what he saw as “a cultural scandal”, the absence of a biography of Marse, what the biography itself replied: “I still wonder why, because I know, Marse is still not dead”.
The writer spoke of characters much interest as “Ernest Hemingway, who had been hunting in Africa, participated in the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, which had lots of lovers.”
From reading the biography, Marse confesses that what he liked most was the rediscovery of the writer Paulina Crusat, the letters that passed and reading recommendations: Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal and Albert Camus.
Along with high literature, Marse grew up with “novels kiosk, which is not bad literature, because bad is going through a label selectively and what is not, “noted the author.
Cuenca said meanwhile that” did not make sense to Marse was raised write a memoir, because those memories are reflected in his novels, but could be offered an external view from the position of the biographer, not the pornographer “.
Marse, who hates the hagiographies, confessed that fortunately Basin included in the biography” polemics with peliculeros “, among which he cited Francisco Umbral.
Threshold, said Cuenca, came to be called “Gulf and chorizo” to Marse, who along with John Doe were his most hated, even above Benito Perez Galdos writers.
In this episode, Marse sees “an ethical approach towards literature.”
“Threshold represented for me the kind of writing that pisses me off more, that in which the brilliant language, extraordinary I is imposed over the characters and events, such prose rattle, bombastic, allegedly stemmed in Spanish classics, which is also found in Cela and Juan Goytisolo “.
Dice Marsé your biography with his usual irony that “otherwise, it is an entertaining novel, although the protagonist is an unlikely character.”
The writer of “If They Tell You I Fell” confesses reading “While arrives happiness “has discovered some things about her biological family did not know, because he always lost interest and felt closer to her foster family.
The biography also includes his equally controversial departure of the award jury Planet sick of making “vase”, and its relationship with Lara. “Lara’s father was a man in his mafioso legal world and was very easy to understand with him.”
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