“I don't know if I use alcohol to write or if I use writing to drink.
It is an almost Pavlovian mechanism.
I can drink without writing but I cannot write without drinking.
The next morning I throw it away ”.
The reflection of the writer Juan Benet serves to illustrate the difficult relationship between alcohol and literature, between drunkenness and creation, between addiction, in the worst case, and genius.
Three books of very different condition and style that have appeared in recent months reflect on all this ...
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