Barcelona (Spain), Dec 15 (EFE) .- The US Richard Ford returns to resort to his character and alter ego Frank Bascombe to articulate his latest work, “Frankly, Frank,” made up of four stories with background plot the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, off the coast of New Jersey.
At a press conference in Barcelona (northeastern Spain), Ford explained that wrote the stories without expectation that they became another book, after traveling to New Jersey with his wife to see the destruction that had caused the hurricane, a vision that shocked him.
“See how he destroyed the lives of a lot of Americans hit me a lot” said Ford, and as the writers are always looking for something shocking that allows capture those emotions, “to feel the shock and seeing no words to express what you feel, I realized I had to write about this.”
For Ford, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and considered one of the best American writers, “literature has to move and shake from emotionally and intellectually,” and the book, published in Spanish by Anagrama, excited especially the second story.
In this story, a black woman comes home from Frank Bascombe, rapporteur of the stories he tells that she lived in the happiest time of his life and he’s back because the house in which she lived has been devastated by the hurricane.
While the common link is the hurricane, only the first story is really talking about this event, because, as recognized by the writer, He has served as an excuse to address other issues
“It’s a -matiza- intellectual response: in life there is something shocking and is what causes me to say what I say or do what I do.”. And points out. “If I can establish a causal relationship to what I write and the consequences of a hurricane, answer to an essential question of humanity”
On the reappearance of Frank Bascombe in the book, which says It is written for Christmas because that’s when feelings arise, recognizing that thought of it back to tell these stories, because “can be serious and funny at the same time, and this is an” ace in the hole to get the reader’s attention. ”
It also ensures that, rather than a novel in the strict sense, “Frankly, Frank” is the sum of four accounts of 15,000 words each. “I did not want to write another novel and now I concentrate in doing things that are not hard or difficult “he says.
As for his next project, although is 72 and does not make many plans, he says write” another book with Bascombe “and that is “to be alive” before writing another novel.
The character of many of his works he is aging, and Bascombe and is 68 years old. She told Richard Ford, always carries a notebook in which scores things that Frank would think, “even if you plan to put it in a book: it’s like a voice that I heard, is close to me, not me, but never far away “.
With regard to the possibility that his character comes to the movies, he said that for years he was paid very well to make a television series of eight chapters, but ultimately did not, so would not mind a good director, as Pedro Almodóvar, cogiera his work to make a film.
“I have 45 years writing novels and faced the weaknesses and failures and thinking that things do not do so well as I’d like, or like other writers. ” And this, he added, makes all the sense of humility. EFE
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