2023-12-01 22:29:17
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Updated Friday, December 1, 2023 – 21:29
The disciplined writer publishes his twentieth novel, ‘Anglique’. “We live with frustration, the feeling that we could be something else, and that generates resentment,” he says.
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His revelation occurred when he was 11 years old. It was Christmas and remember that it was raining a lot. Searching in the bookstore of her mother, who was a librarian, she found a volume that caught her attention: Wuthering Heightsthe Emilie Bront. “I started reading and I couldn’t stop, I had the feeling that I was free, that I was reading something forbidden, that experience marked me, for me it was a revelation. I have reread it several times. It is a work that you can read at different times of your life. “life and the message is different because it has several layers. He writes about very powerful feelings. For me it is an object of fascination how such unique destinations can be described.”
This is how the literary history of the most read author in France begins. His name is more unknown in Spain, but Guillaume Musso (Antibes, 1974) has been the most popular French author for a decade and has been among the three most read since 2008 (along with Harlan Coben y Stephenie Meyer). Her novels have been translated into 44 languages and have sold millions of copies.
In the country of the literature of Proust or Flaubert, Guillaume Musso sells more books than many Nobel Prize winners. He passionately tells how, that Christmas day, he became trapped in the story (the only one Brnte wrote) that, a long time later, made him start writing. In between, he studied Economics, worked selling ice cream in the US and as a teacher. “For 20 years I have been trying to write what I would like to read at that moment, I tell myself a story“, he says. “You have to give pleasure and entertain people. My novels are read by different profiles and not everyone is looking for the same thing. They have two levels: one to entertain, to make you want to turn the page, and another deeper one, to make you think,” she explains.
He meets us for the interview at the headquarters of the Calmann Levy publishing house, in the center of Paris, which has just published Angliquehis 20th novel. There he has his office, where he goes every day to write for eight hours, because he will be the most read author and will write an average of one book per year.requires discipline“. “I work every day, I need it so that the ideas come. A book can take between four and six months, between the documentation process and assembling the skeleton. Then there is the writing phase, which can last up to a year,” he explains.
He says writing “is hard.” “Opening the door to the imaginary world is difficult until you find the first sentence. Albert Camus said that writing a novel is easy, the difficult thing is writing 10, because then you have to structure your brain for literature,” says Musso. “This happens when you are constantly storing ideas in your brain, you have to have a devotion to writing, you never hit the off button. “You always look for references that serve as fuel.”
What is the fuel for one of the most read authors in France? “The experience, the conversations with friends, what you talk about in a taxi, the stories that people tell you…”. The first paragraph, the one that has to catch the reader, “sometimes it comes, sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes, when you start writing, You feel like you are with bare feet trying to see the peak of Everest. That’s why you need a lot of confidence.” “Anton Chekhov said ‘I don’t know how to make a film, but I know how to make scenes’, so I tell myself that I’m going to compose different scenes. Anglique is like a compendium of different theater scenes,” she continues.
Although most of his most successful novels are of the thriller genre, he says that he writes “hybrid books, without a particular genre.” Public Et Aprs (And after) after having suffered a traffic accident. She was talking about the end of life. It was the most read novel that year: “After my experience I am more aware that life can stop at any moment. To face that concern I wanted to tell a story that talks about the end of life, but in a more playful way. It sold. quickly, because it is a topic that was interesting.
Anglique talks about the complexity of being human, about “how sometimes we have the feeling of not being in our place, are characters who want to have a different life. We live with frustration, the feeling that we could be something else, and that generates resentment,” he says.
“What I want is to convey to the reader that he is not the only one who has complex or contradictory feelings. The novel provides that: it describes the complexity of the human being. TheThe glowde Stephen Kingshows the struggle of the man who is going to become a monster and in the film, for example, you don’t see that, you see the monster,” he says, referring to the film by Stanley Kubrick starring Jack Nicholson.
Your favorite book, of the 20 bestsellers who has published, is the one she wrote when she had just had her son. It’s called Central Park. It was 2013, he was taking care of the baby and he says that one day, at seven in the morning, he started writing. The novel begins with a French police officer and an American jazz pianist who are handcuffed on a bench in Central Park. She is carrying her gun and it is missing a bullet. They don’t remember anything.
This is his favorite of those written, but he has a “dozen books in his head” that have not yet seen the light of day. There is one in particular that he has been obsessed with for a long time, just over 10 years. It is the story of the “war godmothers”: women who sent letters to soldiers who had no one, whom no one expected when they returned from the front. Literature, he says, is like good wine, “it needs time.” Also like a love story: “It is successful when you find the person at the right time. A novel has to be written at the right time.”
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