Funny character this Antonio Soler, whose name is familiar to the Spanish reader, and, alas, not well enough known in France.
A shy person, a weak voice, the profile of a nocturnal bird.
Soler: a virtuoso of the novel, whose qualities have nothing to envy to those of his contemporaries: Javier Cercas, his friend Enrique Vila-Matas, the Andalusian Antonio Muñoz Molina.
A man rather stingy with interviews, and whom we met a few weeks ago during his visit to Paris.
His thirteenth novel,
Sud
, is a true masterpiece.
At 66, this great reader of Proust has reached the peak of his art, with this Andalusian fresco, a kind of abundant and picaresque “human comedy”, taking place in less than 24 hours in Malaga, his hometown.
A day for a novel, such as
Ulysses
by Joyce,
Mrs Dalloway
by Woolf,
Below the Volcano
by Lowry, or
Cosmopolis
by Don DeLillo.
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With
Sud
,
he confides to us
, I played the role of a conductor directing a polyphonic score, with the…
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