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Olga Merino: "I wanted to talk about suicide and a song to freedom came out"

2020-05-28T14:46:18.884Z


The author of La forastera recommends books by Dovlátov, Uriarte, Pardo Bazán, Graham Green and Miquel Molina


Olga Merino impeccably novelized the stories of the Sovietized Spanish children , those sent from the Republican side who became adults in Russia with the serious identity problems that their situation in Red Ashes (1999) entailed . And today he applies the same thoroughness and depth to a woman who settles in her old town in La forastera (Alfaguara). A book of return, back to origins contaminated by the corners, the legends around various suicides, from an empty Spain that is not welcoming.

"Without wishing it, a song of freedom and resistance came out," says Merino (Barcelona, ​​1966). My protagonist returns to a remote place and has to resist with very few financial resources, a house that falls apart. It is a small light, because the origin was a certain obsession of mine with the suicide of a friend whose father had committed suicide at the same age. "

Merino also tells us his readings in confinement:

- Diaries , Iñaki Uriarte, Pumpkin Nuggets.

- The suitcase , Sergey Dovlátov, Editorial Fulgencio Pimentel.

- The End of the Affair , Graham Green, Asteroid Books.

- My dear. Letters to Galdós . Emilia Pardo Bazán, Turner.

- Still life , Miquel Molina, Edhasa.

Source: elparis

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