I learn through Moleskine Notes Iván Thays, the output of a video interview in which Santiago Roncagliolo. If more accurate, I would say that is an attempt to interview, since most of the answers is "No answer." These originate negative talk about her novel Memoirs of a Lady and so far unclear and mysterious reasons of their removal from circulation. Let us start with the obvious facts. This novel was released with the same strategy used by Alfaguara publishing house. Suddenly, without reason or official statements, the book disappears from bookstores and do not read in the media, at least in the English media, more reviews and comments. It is known by the press media of
Yo he leído la novela y he disfrutado de su lectura enormemente. Lo que he leído yo es la historia de un joven peruano que viaja a España con el interés de become a writer. To this goes through many ups and downs, as a desperate attempt to solve legal problems and obtain a green card, as well as their frustrations to find a publisher who really support it, to survive all this with a girlfriend which he is desvanesciendo go in this free fall is his life. This character has a great cynicism to achieve their goals, but this does just that his fall is increasing tremendously. And it costs a lot of contrast. The truth is that in the midst of these troubles appear in Paris a wealthy woman who hires its staff that he write his memoirs. This woman will not only represent their economic salvation, but also as a writer. What a woman seeks to tell his life is tough but gorgeous in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo dictatorship. But then, how a life in this context as it was that bloody dictatorship, could be told from that perspective pink. It is here that the young writer decides fictionalizing what she tells him. This young distorts consciousness and creates a hyperbolic story. Of course, it is justified to this lady, but his imagination leads him increasingly more to building a painful story of family intrigue. The budding writer then writes a fiction within a fiction, which is Memoirs of a lady. However, within this fictional character appears hyperbolic, the son of the lady, painted as a tyrant. For fictional purposes, is the perfect antagonist. And this terrible character within the fiction of the young writer then appears on the fictional construction of the first level. And here also is a powerful guy, but practical, apparently away from the building they had done it in the fiction of the second level. In the novel, the practical man does not want those memories (which are not, which obviously have been recreated by the young writer ) are disseminated and is negotiating to get it. However, this young writer, with a halo fatal, loser loses everything.
This is the story I read and this is the story that fascinated me. At all times Roncagliolo weaves the suspense very well and plays with different levels of fictionality.
For me as a reader of novels, all ends here. But apparently, and this happened to speculation, someone is not comfortable with the appearance of this novel. Someone has seen or believed betrayed. An additional fact is that we know from their own statements Roncagliolo aparción years before this book, he wrote the memoirs of a rich lady who lived in Paris. Well, nothing special to know that came from real events. Absolutely all writers do. The problem is that someone, according to rumors, the son of Mrs. America in Paris, he has not read like a novel and felt insulted. This happens in the XXI century. There is speculation, because that is why there is no direct sources, that this mighty subject has blocked all dissemination of the book. What is surprising is that if this guy actually feel insulted, why not file a formal complaint? Why Alfaguara, if any, are not reported to have withdrawn his novel problems warrant? If there is an agreement under the table, it is quite murky and undoubtedly the only injured, unprotected, Santiago Roncagliolo is. Viewing the interview is obviously being protected. Not talk because you say it could use to harm him. Now, as there are concrete actions, demands, we assume that there are threats. And if there are threats and someone to speak and remove you from his book, that's called censorship. Someone might say it is a legally valid way pretegerse. But you have to protect yourself legally every time one writes a novel? If so, all writers are at risk. This is a permanent threat to the writer and is intolerable to be accepted without question. What is expected to react to prosecute Santiago Roncagliolo? What happens is something more serious?
Minimum logic would tell us not so bad, that in these times these things do not happen. And yet.
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