Now Carmen Posadas, through Editorial Planeta, launched a historical novel about a subject enthralling. The daughter of Cayetana is located in the time of Charles IV, to animate characters such as Goya, the duchess of Alba and her adopted daughter, Mary Light. But the story is not left in the history of the great figures. "The novel is also full of anecdotes, curiosities, from how he invented the sandwich, to the dentures of the time," he advances.
—what Of your childhood in montevideo which is more evocás?
—The fifth of the Prado where we lived. I think that I am a writer thanks to this place. A house immense, with three floors: we lived on the two floors below, and above and living ghosts. Because it was the clothing of my great-great-grandfather, with all the things of life much more sumptuous that we met. That it was not bad the our. But what was still more encopetado. And the garden was a botanical park, with trees from all over the world.
—What today the Park Inns do you think?
—gives Me a lot of grief, because they have left the house there, like a ghost. It gives Me a very strange feeling: it is the house and after there are a number of huge apartments. The house, in addition, have been painted a color that is very rare. I don’t much like to go down there.
—You always remarcás your condition uruguayan…
—I don’t like that people who renounce their roots. I don’t have a drop of blood that is not uruguayan. And when one leaves his or her country, somehow idealized a lot. For me Uruguay is the happiness. I just had a happy childhood. Every time I think of Uruguay, I think of the happier time of my life.
—what flaws do you see that we have the uruguayan?
—Now I think that is correcting, but for a long time there was a kind of defeatism, that I didn’t understand. A good, does it matter, you broke it, nothing happens.
—And what of the spaniards, what defect do you see most often?
—The spaniards are ruthless with themselves. Breast strokes permanent. And I don’t know why. They have a lot of good things. Always say to them.
—Taco Larreta in Volavérunt had taken the life of Cayetana of Alba. How had this book when writing The daughter of Cayetana?
—Was the first novel that re-read, because I had read in his time and I loved it. And in addition, Taco Larreta: two uruguayans dealing with the same topic. This novel has a theory about how she died the duchess of Alba, but I have another. I wanted to tell the real story. It is now known how he died the duchess of Alba. I don’t want to disclose, because it is part of the novel.
—what Apelaste to source documentary?
—Well, I know Carlos, the current duke, and the first thing I did was call him, and ask him what he knew. He helped me a lot, allowed me to see the testament of the duchess, and other documents about Goya.
—How did you get the theme of the book?
—One day a friend said to me: do You know that the duchess of Alba, Goya, had a daughter black?. And he told me the story of that little girl, that it was given to him as a slave. And the duchess, who could not have children, grew fond of such a way, that the prohijó, and at his death he left a sizable inheritance.
—What they reflect in addition to those characters?
—allowed Me to tell a story of the above and the below: the history of the court, and of the slavery. We all know that there were slaves in the colonies, but here in Spain is not always clear that there were also slaves.
—what character uruguayan would you like to write?
—I’ve thought about writing about Delmira’agustini. It seems to Me an incredible story, it has all the ingredients, although, of course, in Uruguay, is a story well known.
—what is the uruguayan authors which you feel closest to?
—I have devotion by Horacio Quiroga, which we read and releíamos with my father. Then I discovered Benedetti; Onetti there are things I like and others that bore me a lot, although obviously is a master. And Felisberto Hernandez, as distinct, I also love.
—tell me of your everyday surroundings…
—I live in Madrid, behind The Cuts: the apartment is old, from the mid-NINETEENTH century, with very high ceilings. It is a huge house for me at the moment, because my daughters are married and I am a widow and live alone. But I love it, and I won’t move. I’ve always needed a lot of space. Maybe because I was born in that fifth as large.
—do you Have many objects of art?
—Yes. With the Planeta prize I bought a Figari, and I have also other pictures good. My house is full of memories, I have furniture from the time of the fifth and other than that we bought in England, when my dad was stationed there. As we have traveled a lot, we have a bit of each country.
—And what is the object of your house that you like more?
—I have a desktop that I bought when my dad was stationed in Moscow. It was the soviet period lasts, and the jeans were the most searched by the people. I could swap one for any other thing. And I changed one by this secrétaire Empire style, made of ebony with inlaid bronze.
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