Elia Giner gives us an interview after the publication of his novel Spells (fickle). Author of the fantastic trilogy Black King, white butterfly, after writing the first two volumes of the trilogy, wrote Highlights (fickle, 2018) awarded the Literary Networking award from the AEN Writers Congress in 2018. In December 2019 arrive Spells (Spells), why we asked him in this interview. GINÉS J. VERA
Spells It is a novel narrated in the first person by a young girl in her first year of high school.. How was the experience of getting into “the heels” from Lucia, Lu for the most intimate, at the time of writing it?
I loved getting into his skin, because Lu looks a lot like Elia from 16 years, So it's been a bit like reminiscing about my own adolescence., ¡and,and!
Lucía's best friend is Jess, I would like you to introduce us something about her. Y, already put, in parity, about the character of Samuel. I think we can say about him that he is a childhood friend.. At least until he had to go to Scotland for family reasons.. He has a very juicy role in this novel, Isn't that so?
Jess is Lu's best friend.. She is impulsive and a little crazy, and will be responsible, in part, that Lu dares to try her grandmother's love spell. Although he is a secondary character, has a lot of background, since little by little, as the novel progresses, Lu discovers that her friend's life is not as perfect as it seems and that will make her value many things that she previously took for granted.. As for Samuel, Yeah, has a very juicy role in the novel. He was Lu's best friend in childhood., and now that he has returned, The feelings between him and Lu will evolve from distrust to... attraction?? love? I will let the readers be the ones to name the intense complicity that arises between the two..
“As I verified with my own eyes, “Boys and girls stop being best friends at certain ages.”, We read. Can you tell us this phrase?
Samuel and Lu were close friends, since the 4 o 5 years until Samuel's parents divorced and he went to live in Scotland, with his father. At first, Lu missed him terribly.. “Life went from being in color to being in black and white”, remembers when he remembers that time. Then, as time goes by, Lu consoles herself by thinking that they would have stopped being best friends even if Samuel had not left., because as he sees with his own eyes at school, Boys and girls stop being best friends at certain ages. "Don't ask me why, But it is. “Mysteries of the universe”. This is how Lucía settles that internal dialogue, ¡and,and! It is a very spontaneous reflection, tender and full of innocence, don't you think?
In a passage from the novel, Lucía admits that she has always been normal, from the pile. Who has never stood out in anything, really. But there is a transcendent fact in his story, although she admits that she limited herself to following a recipe, something anyone could have done. my question, as Lucía does for herself, it's about impulses , about the small acts that make the course of things turn around. Perhaps linking it with what her mother explained to Lucía about the theory of chaos and the flapping of the butterfly's wings and tsunamis.. To what extent do small acts taken impulsively condition the life and future of people??
Yeah, Lucía does not have high self-esteem. She thinks she's normal, from the pile. “More current than tap water”, he even says in one chapter, ¡and, and! However, that's not true: Lucia is brave, Very brave. But, It is not possible to explain why he dares to do all the things he does to discover the truth about his grandmother., his family past and his own identity. Besides, Her experiences throughout the novel make her evolve. That is why it is capable, at the end of the story, to make reflections as accurate as the one you comment on. When Lu remembers the moment when her grandmother's spell fell into her hands, He realizes that he opened that folded paper because he was curious.. But he also recognizes that in the same way he opened it and read it, I could have thrown it away, what was your first impulse. That little act, Lucía understands in a burst of lucidity, made the course of things take a decisive turn. “Opening that paper was like pushing a domino.”, that hit another, which in turn hit another, and to another, and to another, causing a chain reaction.", dice. Just like in chaos theory, whose most famous metaphor is the one you mention and which states that the flap of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world can cause a tsunami in the other.. It's a beautiful comparison, the way I see it...
