“It’s a short novel”, qualifies the journalist and writer Carolina Sarmiento (Asturias, 1981) with a great sense of humor when asked about ‘Pervert’, maybe because it is his first novel after a collection of poems‘Ikiru’, 2018) and short stories (‘Urticating Animals’, 2020), perhaps because the novel itself is an exercise in freedom “I didn’t want corsets. I put whatever I wanted. Poetry, song lyrics, automatic writing.”
pervert, what edita Silver Fish, was written during confinement and under a single premise: freedom. “It’s a mess, a mess. Like when you start dancing in the middle of the floor and you don’t care. That’s how I wrote it, I needed to get rid of certain corsets. “
A freedom that he shares with his protagonist, a middle-aged woman, with no name, who was called a moron when she was little, who, pressured by the publication of a new novel and Fed up with the rain, one morning dawns and as she is, in her pajamas, she gets in her car and drives off in search of a warm place. That tour, by way of road novel it will also be a path full of surprises. “I only knew the starting point. I let myself be guided only by fluency, allowing myself the luxury of writing however I wanted. To experiment.” ‘Tarada’ will be presented in Oviedo on June 2 at the Calatrava at 7:00 p.m. and in Gijón, during Black Week.
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