When Mariano Sánchez Soler published his first novel, Fresh meat, in 1987, wasn’t there women raising the black breed. «A journalist from the left was the author’s profile, closely linked to realistic story and events». Since then, “fortunately that has changed and there are more writers added to this type.
Proof of this is that the next edition of Mayo Negro will focus on the authors who developed this literature, through four of them: Mónica Rouanet, Martha Prieto, empar fernandez and Esther Abellan. Also Goya for Best Director in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s cinema ie animals, “This is a black cinema, very black.” To be 3 – 6 May inside UA City Center in Alicante, When the XV edition of this meeting, coordinated by the journalist and the author, was made Mariano Sanchez Soler and professor and film and literary critic Francisco J Ortizwith the slogan Female writers in film noir and the cinema of Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
“We thought it was worth doing. meeting with writers those who approach the noir genre in a novel to have that conversation with the four of them, to see how they write, what the topics are that interest them, why they apply to that genre, and focus on the present moment of the noir”, points out Sanchez Soler.
The journalist points out: “There are many women now. making well-written and complex, plain black literature, it was Alicia Giménez Bartlett who paved the way ». Still, “I don’t know if there are many, but what I do know is that they are very good.”
According to him, “the story was so insane that we could only put it in the genre to make an anthology. lourdes ortiz that he wrote a crime novel; It’s true that the publishers weren’t too interested either, it felt like a bit of a cultured genre ».
Conferences and meetings
Black May 2023 will begin on May 3 with a block named. real crimesHe is in charge of the coordinators of this cycle programmed by the University of Alicante. “Referring to my last two books, I will talk about the criminal history of post-Francoism, and Fran will make an exhibition based on real events but transferred to the world of cinema through film sequences.”
Next day, meeting four noir writers, to offer another different look at this genre. “For some, this is their first detective novel, although they’ve written others that aren’t in this genre before.”
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Martha Prieto to take The most famous, his first novel, The Murder of the Acting President of Leon. Writer Emperor Fernandez, For his part, he developed this genre in several of his books and published it last year. It will be our secret, her last novel so far. Also, Alicante esther abellan haunt sign it was enough The story of a woman who is a victim of gender-based violence who is stranded in a small town and decides to do justice in her own way.
The date of her meeting with Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been revealed. 5th of May, on a screen where the director will describe the way he envisions cinema and his films. “The idea is to screen the short film. MomWinner of the Alicante Film Festival». His feature film will be screened on the 6th of the month God forgive us starring Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Javier Pereira and Luis Zahera, among others.
beyond the novel
According to Sánchez Soler, the idea is “not just to stay in detective novels; last year it was comics and poetry against the war and this year cinema; According to what we see today and the circumstances, we divide this issue into this or that topic ».
Although he admits that today there is a very thin line between genres. “It is true that black intersex but the hallmark of the noir is the realism and the underworld of what the world is like. there is then mystery novel, detective novel, but the dark part of the pure black genre is the violence of society, which can be in many ways. It is a species with messy borders, but the main body is very clear”.
“I think it’s great to have genres mixing, these genres mixing, this quest, but when you’re doing it, you need to know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it,” he emphasizes. «the name of the rose It is a detective novel because it explains how the world worked at that time, the theme of the inquisition, the witch hunt, contextualizes and explains how a particular society and power worked ».
Throughout the different versions of Mayo Negro (15 out of 18 because it stopped for a year and two were delayed by covid) 75 authors, “anyone who stands out at any time in the noir genre in literature and also in cinema.” Among them, names such as Juan Madrid, Lorenzo Silva, Paco Ignacio Taibo or Santiago García Tirado.