The writer Carlos Zanón grants me an interview (Barcelona, 1966), author of varibooks of poems y, in the narrative scope, among other, of the novels Afternoon, wrong and never (Brigada Award for Best First Novel of the Year, finalist for the Silverio Cañada Memorial Award, Yellow and Noir (Italia) and Black Violet (France), Don't call home (Valencia Negra award for best novel of the year) o I was Johnny Thunders, (Salamanca Negra award for best Novel of the Year 2014, Novelpol award 2015 and Dashiell Hammet Award 2015). GINÉS J. VERA
The new Pepe Carvalho returns older and more disenchanted: a bitter curmudgeon since he was seven - we read -; in an existential crisis trying to find his place, immersed in an apparent search for himself. Somehow, Is it a way to empathize with the lifelong Carvalho reader?? Who are the new ones - and the not so new ones?- potential readers of this new old Galician-Catalan detective?
In fact, He returns with a different age than if we had followed the MVM chronology. When you write, you always try to empathize with a reader who never stops being yourself.. But not especially with Carvalho's old readers. Anyone who opens the book is a potential reader..
Face the challenge of giving it a foothold, coffee and cigarettes to a mythical character after 23 novels by Vázquez Montalbán. What was the first thing that came to mind when thinking about this experiment within the contemporary Spanish crime novel??
Which was a luxury and a ticking bomb at the same time..
As in any good crime novel worth its salt., and in that we see that it follows in the wake of MVM, there is a look and shaking of the tablecloth at the social context. I don't know if Biscuter participates in MasterChef if it's a poetic wink vs.. pathetic for or against everything kistch that they try to make us 'swallow' through the silly box.
Carvalho does not like the sentimental pornography of reality shows. He doesn't understand frivolity. It's your position, nothing else.
What part of Carlos Zafón would you like to remain in Carvalho's character and what part remains of what Vázquez Montalbán left in him??
Nothing about Zafón, from MVM what I have reread as essential: disenchantment, tenderness, the relative, love for the truth.
Tell us about the female characters - in general- in ‘Carvalho: Identity problems. Because it is clear that Pepe is still a womanizer, but women - neither individually nor collectively- They are the same ones that benefited in the last four decades.
Carvalho does not benefit from Nadie, the truth. In “Identity Problems” there are female characters that I have tried to give identity and verisimilitude..
Lawyer Subirats has a curious thesis about the latest Spanish tapas. He postulates without amazement that only they are saved - like the Gallic village of Obelix and Asterix- those of the bars run by Chinese. Hispanic decline, in your opinion, It is a very serious identity issue.. Have you checked it in your own stomach? Do you recommend any Five Euros if we drop by the county??
Any bar run by Chinese makes great tapas. At your choice.
I think the worst thing about Carvalho is that he burns books.. That hackneyed phrase from Heinrich Heine comes to mind - written for two centuries.- when he said that “where books are burned, human beings end up being burned as well.”. You who know Carvalho best, Could you tell us how someone capable of preparing wonderful calf livers with bacon, leek and apple is capable of this ignominy?
You are right. It's horrible to burn books even if they're horrible..
Last question. Pepe has TV, but not to see what every neighbor's son, He prefers to go to the film library and watch good movies. Although when he was in New York he surprised us by stating that he had not seen Star Wars. As in the case of the MasterChef question, I don't know if it says a lot or a little about the George Lucas saga. What do you think?
Carvalho has something of Han Solo, don't you think?
