The writer, journalist and communication specialist Daniel Ruiz (Sevilla, 1976) recently published global warming (Tusquets) why we asked. His first novel, Scrap, won the Short Novel Award from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and, years later, inspired a short film shortlisted for the Oscars in 2006. Five novels followed., which have earned him recognitions such as the V Villa de Oria Short Novel Prize or the Onuba Novel Prize. His most recent works are the novels Everything is Fine (2015) and The Great Wave (2016, XII Tusquets Novel Editors Prize). GINÉS J. VERA.
Let's start at the beginning, The title of this novel seems like a kind of ironic nod to the fact that 'things' are heating up.; not just the planet, In the plot, the converging stories take heat as in a stew with a broth in the style of Mediterranean rice... socarrat included. Have I got it right?
Absolutely. It's a “great warm-up”. That begins in my “great excitement” as a citizen, who later becomes a “great hottie” as a writer. I always write against something, by a reactive principle, and that always ends up taking the form of a great relief. Here is an explicit vent, formulated in the title of the book itself.
We meet a good pack of characters, some more traditional than others, endearing and just the opposite at times. A love story also beats, So I can't resist asking you about the role of men and women in this novel.; y, you are animated, to tell us about that neofeminism that has been rampant in our society lately, almost like CSR in companies..
The issue of machismo interests me a lot., more specifically, that of invisible machismo that permeates the consciences of women themselves without them being fully aware.. This is what happens with one of the characters in the book and her love life.: has come to naturally assume positions of dominance and abuse, so that he does not know how to deal with relationships in any other way. Another of the characters, Berta, She is a cyberactivist who has partially come out of the closet, and who tries to escape from the male yoke, without much luck. Survive in a man's world, made by men, it's complicated. I believe that machismo is absolutely attached to our daily lives., and becomes even more present in extreme power relations.
At one point in the novel it is mentioned that several Oilgas workers ask the plant director and Carlos Soto, to the union, to do 'the most' in the face of the situation generated. The problem was knowing what it was the most according to the different expectations of each of the parties. One this with the role of unions in this country and, more specifically, in these times of crisis (from which we have already left, as some crow). Tell us what you think of the role of the national unions inside and outside the novel..
The novel portrays the case of a vertical union, of class, yellow. Unions created by the companies themselves, much kinder in relation to labor demands, always accommodating, always docile. This is not an invention, he is very many years old, heritage of Francoism, and that has been maintained in many cases during democracy. A formula to maintain social peace that is still surprisingly valid in many companies. Although the trend now is clearly different: that of companies built on the basis of workers who are falsely self-employed, and that they have a non-labor but commercial relationship with those who pay them, who live totally freed from the annoying social commitments with the worker. Liquid economy, What would Bauman say?.
I don't know if with this novel he seeks a deep - or light- reflection on success through characters in whom, despite how hateful or miserable they may seem,, about the fact that more and less of us have a point of goodness... perhaps asserting what the famous Genevan philosopher said that man is good by nature and it is society that corrupts him. Amen.
I don't think there is any character in global warming may he be happy, and may it be truly successful. Everyone is crossed, at different levels, for the drama and the misery. Because everyone has a share of dirt in their spirit, They are usually pretty miserable.. At the same time, everyone provokes pity. That's actually what I think a little about people.. We all provoke pity, starting with me. There are no good and bad, it all depends on the circumstances. And when circumstances are difficult, we tend to predation.
