Less ‘landismo’ and more ‘finlandismo’ | The Extra Hour

Screenwriter, film director, novelist, Santiago Lorenzo had already written The millions, The orphans and The desire -all on Blackie Books- before publishing in 2018 Disgusting and make the leap to thousands of readers with that story of a guy named Manuel who, as he has explained, “is dying to fuck and to go out with canes, and ends up realizing that, as is fine, it is only in his house “, in an almost abandoned town. So Manuel becomes the king of loneliness and isolation, like his own author, who traded a flat in the center of Madrid years ago for a house in a village of 16 inhabitants.

Lorenzo, with whom we spoke today, says that since his confinement he sees now, in Spain, less landismo and more finlandism and that these times of confinement are showing that culture is a vital necessity: “We need it much more than we think, it is a necessity. This is a country that would have specific reasons for its patriotism, few countries have generated a language like This one, for example. We weren’t very good as scientists, but we were very good at painting things and writing plays and novels. That’s true patriotism. ” And by the way, Lorenzo is in no rush to post after Disgusting.

In addition, this week we have accompanied booksellers and booksellers who have begun to open their doors and meet again with readers; Eva Cruz recommends Lord’s beauty (Anagrama), by Albert Cohen, a whole treatise on self-deception and Emma Vallespinós wonders if asepsis will reign in our lives from now on.

Today collaborating in The Extra Hour: Álvaro Zamarreño, Emma Vallespinós, Eva Cruz and Yonyi Arenas.

The music that plays is by Anna Calvi, Jero Romero, Pájaro Sunrise and The Rolling Stones, among others.

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