By Monica Uriel MADRID, 29 (ANSA) – The writer Eduardo Mendoza said today that Spain has “the criminals who deserve” presenting his novel “The Secret model lost”. His new work is the fifth installment of the mad detective and unnamed Mendoza (Barcelona, 1943) began with “The Mystery of the Haunted Crypt” in 1979.
“The secret of the missing model” (Seix Barral) the writer goes into the “dark goings of the powerful” as the detective solves the murder of model and shows the evolution of Barcelona in the hands of a greedy government.
“I do not know if we have rulers deserve, but we deserve offenders. a very small time crooks Instead of making financial lampistería financial engineering, “said Mendoza, referring to politicians and corrupt businessmen in the book presentation
writer. Barcelona shows 30 years, without tourists, when La Pedrera, designed by Antonio Gaudi, nowadays one of the most visited places in Barcelona, where he presented the book, was an abandoned building, and then comes to the city today, “Gone tourist destination worldwide.” When he walks along the Paseo de Gracia is no longer friends of his youth or military service. “Now you are no longer anyone or in your city or your race”
In his novels “there is always irritation by advertising this touch of Barcelona, city celebrations and conferences “when in fact it is” a city with many problems and conflict, with potential to become something terrible behind his mask of kindness. “
His detective, also starring in “Labyrinth of olives”, “The Adventure of the ladies” and “The entanglement of the bag and the life”, “manages to do almost everything, travel, sleep, eat, no money. Nor have telephones” and not having no name because that wanted the writer. Asked if his detective imagines a republic Catalan capital Barcelona, responded that it was not imagined that “novelists will harrows reality.” Mendoza
the central character of his novel is Miss Westinghouse, “which undergoes an evolution of Civil Guard, a transvestite and defender of the motherland. A rather symbolic character of all of us because it dances to the tune of,” he said.
Mendoza, who began his literary career in 1975 with “The truth about the case Savolta” he thought to write his memoirs, “but I saw that my life was very boring, nothing happened to me interesting, so I decided not to write.” UR / ACZ
29.10.2015 18:01
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