The garrotxí Salvador Vergés presents this afternoon (7pm) at Llibreria 22 his book “Els pergamins de l’Alguer”, a historical novel set in the Empordà of the 14th century
Why doesn’t he go swimming, like all retirees do?
While I was working I was already writing an ica, but I had never written a novel. Now I have time, and I do what satisfies me the most. To write this I have been to Alghero several times. To write the above, which took place in Montmartre, I was in Montmartre. In addition, I like to live the situations. If I’m making it up, I have a feeling it’s not believable.
Or does it mean that if there are sex scenes in his book, he has experienced them?
No, that’s not what I do (laughs)! Maybe if one day I write about sex, yes, but for now it hasn’t been the case. What I did was go on a sailing boat to Alghero, with my children. Fifty hours of travel. And I have been to all the places in Alghero that appear in the book.
But the protagonist is a woman, and I don’t see you looking like a lady. Although today sex change is easy.
Heh, heh, not at the moment, it’s one of the few things I’m clear about. If it wasn’t clear, I would tell him. I may lose the sex, but not the idea. What I am is medieval.
sorry
I was born a farmer, my grandfather used a Roman tin like those of two thousand years before. As a farmer there was no evolution, everything was from another era. There was not a single book at home, not one. All I could read was a calendar, I still remember it: “Piensos Pinos, alimenta a los tocinos”.
When I worked I did it at a self-adhesive label company. Does a book have to stick too?
To go well, yes, it should also be self-adhesive. I think we are more the ones who write than the ones who read. I like to do both.
Is it harder for an unknown writer to edit?
A media writer might sell ten books and I sell one, but I don’t think his is ten times better written. What happens is that he has more support.
A media writer might sell ten books and I sell one, but I don’t think his is ten times better written
Why does a guy from la Garrotxa talk about the sea?
You can already say that. When the water reaches my knees I lose my breath. I don’t think I’ve even gotten into a bathtub, just the shower. I’ts horrible.
Acollonit must have been, during the crossing to Alghero.
very, very I tried to sleep, because in fifty hours you have to try, and when the wind changed I went against the legs of the table. When I arrived in Alghero I went to heal and I was told that the resettlers arrived in better conditions than me.
Cap d’Hornos didn’t happen, man.
We were caught in a stealth net in the middle of the sea. There was a depth of about two thousand meters, that’s scary. My children told me that it was the same, that from one meter on, it was all the same to me. Those who do not believe in God, learn to pray by boat.
It must also have been in Sant Pere de Rodes, as it appears in the book.
They say that Maragall found the mermaid and the shepherd there, in some capitals. It must be a lie, like everything. I question everything the story tells. That’s why I like Pompeii, there Vesuvius put a black sheet over it, and everything they take out from under it is authentic.
The chaplains always have it fixed. If it rains, they will say “Ves?, the Virgin”. And if it doesn’t rain, they’ll say they haven’t prayed enough.
Since I see him set on things of religion: will it work to take out the Virgin to make it rain?
The chaplains always have it fixed. If it rains, they will say “Ves?, the Virgin”. And if it doesn’t rain, they’ll say they haven’t prayed enough.