If Rosa Montero had to describe her library in a novel, she would define it as “chaos, a kind of
totum revolutum
”.
There, in a spacious open and bright room with views of El Retiro, she writes, works and thinks.
It is in this place where she spends the most time, between biographies, novels, reference books and popular science, others that she has not even read and countless colorful objects that reflect her personality as a woman and as a writer.
The books are scattered throughout the house.
On the arms of the sofa, on the floor, on the shelves, in the corridor, covering the bedside tables… “I have always had that feeling that if you have a book close by, nothing very bad can happen to you.
They are my life companions, sometimes my enemies, but I have no bibliographical respect for them, I have affection for them, affection for them”, explains the writer in this new episode of the video format 'In the library of'.
What is the story with which you discovered the existence of death when you were just a girl?
Who are the authors that perfectly represent all your literary pursuits?
Why does publishing fiction have a saving component for it?
What is the book that she would never lend and to which she has a special affection and attachment?
The writer answers these and other questions in this video.