EFE 15/06 23:02 CET
Zaragoza, June 15 ( EFE ) .- The writer and journalist Rosa Montero, who in his latest novel, “The weight of the heart” introduces elements science-fiction, he lamented that there is a “tremendous prejudice” in Spain against this genre, which attributed in part to the “lack of scientific culture.”
This was said Montero during the presentation of his book in Zaragoza, which he described as “one of the most realistic novels” has written that, even if it is a genre that allows enough freedom also requires a high dose of coherence, internal logic and “puzzle on everything fit. “
” The weight of the heart “is the continuation of” Tears in the Rain “, although both can be read separately, and features the same protagonist, Detective Bruna Hasky, a human clone due to a degenerative cancer process known exactly how long you have left to live.
Part of thriller and mystery, as its author, is “more locked” and “more intense” and “approached to reality” than its predecessor, just as internal and existential part is also “more successful” to the point that he has said that he was thrilled to write it.
About the place This new work in his already long career as a novelist noted that he had always thought that writing “novel losers of antiheroes”, but in reality is novels “survival”.
Indeed He has confessed that he has discovered that although all his novels seem very different in almost all repeated the same structure.
This is a character “marginal, unorthodox, misanthrope, who does not know himself” that is with a “very hard” evidence that develops throughout the story and somehow overcomes and also “ends knowing a little more, a little more forgiving and able to be happy” .
So, believes Bruna Hasky is, deep down, the closest thing to it in all that has been written and “The weight of the heart” is among the three or four books of his character that he like.
Both share the obsession with death, which has considered granting a capacity to live “more intense” and, in this regard, he said that the protagonist of the story is “eating Snacks life, literally. “
However, Montero has characterized his detective as” a tiger locked in a small cage, his life, “while she herself, if anything, is” a kitten in a cardboard box. “
This is the first time you repeat protagonist and has deepened in his description saying that it is a physically brave but be cowardly inside, believing that feelings weaken, is misanthropic, antisocial, but he learns along the plot.
Another aspect that journalist stressed this novel and “Tears in the Rain” is that at age 60 , like other people “if they are lucky and if they have money, buy a house on Mount” she decided to indulge in a “world” which is “the ambition of all writers.” “Every novelist is a little god,” he added.
The context, the Madrid of the year 2109, a city that has ceased to be the capital of Spain to become part of a United States of the Earth has been listed as futuristic, but Montero itself has stated that it is not so, because aspects which are reflected in the work, like being able to live in a better or worse depends on the area or even money pay for clean air in that scenario is not so distant from reality.
With regard to your future he pointed out that usually takes three years to write each novel, but has joked that wants to lose this brand only two years because it is “too old” and wants to write “many novels yet.”
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