2024-04-27 20:32:45
“The book is the territory where the imagination can shape another world, other lives. Where both the writer and the reader can be others, and not only read, but live in what is imagined,” she reflected, one day in April, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, when he visited the editorial office of this newspaper to talk about his most recent novel, the second published consecutively under the seal of Penguin Random House, The End of Sadness.
Years before the publication of this novel and focusing on narrative, perhaps as a matter of luck or destiny, was part of Guaire y Traffic, a couple of Venezuelan poetic groups like those that proliferated around the world at a certain point in the last century. Despite his poetic training, he is recognized for the titles that allowed him to win the Herald Award and the Tusquets Novel Prizeto name a few.
I soon confess to Alberto that I find an echo of his profession as a journalist in Gabriel Medina, the protagonist of this novel – which apparently could suggest too much with its title, only until later, after reading, we realize that we were wrong. —.
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“The premise of the character is that the further one is from the news, the happier one is. He believes that he can live without reality, and I believe that he is a temptation that we all have, at some point. Especially because we are full of ‘information’, because we don’t know if what the media, the government, the police, others tell us is true. It is a world that is an informational chaos.”
“Y Gabriel He says: “Well, I’m going to put out that chaos.” (Because) he believes that in some way that chaos is the cause of his sadness, his anxiety, his unrest, of anguish. Then he says: “(if) you can live without reality, then I’m going to live without networks, without information… and you can’t.”
COORDINATES AND REFLECTIONS
In the presence of the complexification and reflection in what is written and that, precisely, escapes the gray dichotomy of good and evil often portrayed in literature, Barrera Tyszka emphasizes that it was totally intentional.
“There is a deliberate thing, especially with a topic as complex as suicide, so not to moralize with that and try to (see it) with characters “that they are complex, irregular, imperfect, that they make mistakes.”
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Near the end, after focusing on the absence of literary references, that is, names of authors or a string of books (whether to fill the paragraphs or out of pure whim rather than for the benefit of the novel itself), he confessed to being someone who reads disorderly, and revealed that he did not read anything to, let’s say, “accompany” the writing of The End of Sadnessbut he thinks that having read Public Privacy by Beatriz Sarlo may have contributed. “Unfortunately, one does not choose her influences,” she concluded.
The novel is available in some of the largest bookstores of the country since the last days of March.
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2024-04-27 20:32:45