Jordi Soler, the talent of Rulfo’s heir and himself

He was born to be small all his life and be a talent in waiting his whole life just as he was adored. William Cabrera Infantebecause everyone admired from the very beginning his ability to dream from the reality that protected him, from his birth in a Mexican jungle, but as soon as they saw that he had climbed the vine and began to be better than those who spared his life, they pretended to save him. He was a young man who was invited to wait forever.

She broke ties with the disdain of those who were afraid to say they were a fan when she published one. novel Inspired by a music born in the essences of Mexico but in its Catalan roots there is the call of another forest, from which the Spanish exile originated.

That book by Jordi, who is now 59 and looks like he’s 29, overseas redheads (2004), whose repercussions never go out until today, as they were those who later formed the musical string of his writings. children of the volcanoThis equates to the greatest achievement of his career: the rhythm that Juan Rulfo gives to his best students.

overseas redheads It was declared the “cult book of the fair” on the date it was published in Spain; praised and quoted by Joan Manuel Serrat anyone Inaki Gabilondoand moved on a rubbish by new readers.

a voice passed

Perhaps there were enthusiasts of that book in literature that reinvented exile, who saw it as a work of art because it set aside the causes of demagogy and embraced the literal: non-adhesive syntax, the ability to make an adjective. from a name.

He lived in his shadow in Dublin. Joyce, as a host for friends who will pay tribute to the father of all who are the creators of Ulysses. There he became a quiet host, as if he would always be the little one who did not raise his voice. His voice intersects with the accents that accompany his background (Mexican, Catalan, Spanish). as seductive as her writingsHe’s a bassist with the resonances of Richard Burton, and sometimes it seems to me there are lines that sound like Juan Rulfo between these threads with his sentence.

Jordi Soler talks about everything as if he were still a questioning teenager (“come here and what are you telling me about this or that?”), he goes too, but also Juan Carlos Onettipaying attention to details.

When he first wrote a story, when he was very young, he had written it “in the handwriting of a child” in green ink, and as he told me it was a grotesque story “about some explorer who got lost somewhere.” cave.” It worked, he realized it when he read it like it wasn’t his anyway, and from there he decided he was the author. It took his colleagues years to find out, but now he’s published children of the volcano The neighborhood already treats you, although (in Alfaguara) it always wanders around naked and happy like the children of the sea and the best literature.

‘children of the volcano’

Jordi Soler

alphaguara

224 pages

€18,90

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