Soledad Puértolas became Speaking in Rio de Letras in a real lecture on literature and social relations.
With a tone very close and a naturalness that astonished hundred spectators gathered at Pedro Cano Foundation, the award-winning Planet as Anagram and talked about his experience as a writer responding to questions typical of every writer: "When" began writing, "Why" did, "How" and writes "What" type.
Soledad Puértolas flooded with letters literary cycle Blanca, with its conference "Life and Literature" which hosted the Foundation Pedro Cano.
After an emotional presentation by journalist and theater critic Antonio Arco, who thanked the organization for allowing literary cycle stand with the writer that made you feel "the galloping of horses in the chest", began the conference entitled as 'The life and literature'.
The academic of the Royal Spanish Academy confessed that he could not understand the world without literature, much less without writing.
"I would end life," says with conviction.
Remember its beginnings in the literary world as a negative experience that brought something positive.
"I fell ill with typhus, with only three years, and you learn that something negative such as a disease can come something positive."
Being sick, Puértolas
heard over and over again the story of 'The hen petirroja' that, according to the writer, showed the ways in which understanding life "there unexplored paths in one's life that does not correspond to everyday life and there the writer is where you fit. "
That explained why its inception in writing
To explain how the author of 'My love in vain' (Anagram, 2012), recognized the critical role that the nuns had their school in style and writing classes, where he realized that the key is to get your stamp for others to be impressed with the way you say things.
"I saw that I had to be a connection between what I felt and my perplexity, and that is just what we know by Style"
"This How-to is attached to Puértolas-do, and that is simply what life" said the Planeta Prize for whom the "why is everything.'s Indomitable. Whoever is overwhelming."
Following this pragmatic introduction, journalist Antonio Arc opened a dialogue with the writer, open to the public, thanks to what he learned out the innermost thoughts of Puértolas who answered with great transparency and poise to complex questions as "what ultimately saves you Literature "to what they actually said academic literature is not intended to save anyone but" helps to think that we can save. "
The author of 'The doubly beloved bandit' confessed, too, felt even in the XXI century gender differences when it comes to recognizing the work of a woman.
In addition, he was hurt by the criticism of those who do not even know and dare to talk about it.
Puértolas acknowledged that when faced with a serious problem always pronounce the word "help".
And it feels great loneliness when you finish reading or writing a book.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca