Successful author of the Baztán trilogy, Dolores Redondo, Read by over four million people worldwide, this Wednesday is full Juan Mart Foundation Palm During the presentation of his latest novel, waiting for the floodInspired by a serial killer who shocked Scotland in the late 60’s.
You believe the real Bible John is alive. may be hiding Magaluf?
I don’t know, but Magaluf would be very attractive to him when it was filled with so many young people.
What drew you to Scotland’s most wanted serial killer?
That he was not caught. It is remarkable that they did not succeed after the great operation launched and having such specific crimes. Theories have connotations that make it inevitable to grow. Many books have been written in Scotland, there are podcasts about John the Bible, the BBC released a documentary about him a year ago. It gives a lot of play.
It’s not the first time he’s been inspired by a real criminal. Are there any more limits to your imagination with these characters?
It is not imagination, but literature is. While I was writing the novel, I had robot portraits of him in my office and photographs of his three real victims, which I will never forget when they were actually killed. Out of respect for these people, in the first part of the book I describe the cases as in the reports, without adding or assuming anything, otherwise there may be persecution of their families. But it’s different when I imagine the murderer coming to Bilbao. From that moment on, the victims are fictitious and I can make up anything about them.
What about your killer?
What happened in the late 60’s is real but they didn’t catch it, so the rest is theory and fantasy. The first thing I did was what a researcher would do, ask an expert to profile John Biblia’s behavior, something that hadn’t been done in those years.
But was he able to recreate his childhood?
Yes, partially recreate it, because this is also a theory based on police data by an expert, although plausible. Everything showed that his urge, his obsession, was caused by pain. He was a victim himself, presumably, as predicted from his youth, some heinous features of crimes and other aspects. But from the beginning of the novel, he made it clear that this was fiction.
“This is not the end,” he says at the end of the book. Inspector Noah Scott Sherrington parked police officer Amaia Salazar?
Not necessarily. There will be more, but not exactly what readers imagine. This novel is the precursor to a literary project that is neither a trilogy nor a series. I think a writer’s job is not just to tell a story, but to try to be original in the way it’s told. I hope the reader enjoys this new literary project.
One is driven by hunches and the other is driven by intuition, but you would think they should be called “cerebral,” a nod to Nobel Prize winner Scott Sherrington.
Charles Scott Sherrington won for discovering the neurological connections between different parts of the brain. It’s about deductive thinking, which is what Sherlock Holmes does when he walks into a room, interpreting it based on publicly visible information and discovering who the murderer is. For the rest it seems like magic, but when they explain it you get it. That’s why I say these are neurological or “brain” connections. What we call intuition is often part of the instinct we have as human beings and is based on all the knowledge we have acquired from our ancestors.
It is thought that the police did not act on forebodings.
Many times, especially in a judicial investigation, they have said that they were completely convinced of who was guilty because of their hunch, but had no evidence to bring them before the judge. In reality, it is a type of information in your brain that you perceive, but the neural connections you need at that moment are not produced even though they give alarm signals. Most are generally quite reliable.
Could the Spanish noir be shoulder to shoulder with the Scandinavian?
I think it’s perfect. Actually, it already is. I am an example of this, and there are some very interesting sounds in this genre.
Why do you think this proliferation occurs?
when i send invisible guard Ten years ago it was very successful among non-novel readers due to its fusion of the history, mythology, and cultural roots of a particular region of the country. Many have told me that they started reading this genre with me and then continued with other authors, so I have an interest in it.
Is it the appropriate genre to reflect the inner storms that draw you so much?
For me, other writers focus more on the police part, on solving the case, but I take great care in conveying the feelings of my characters. Something personal that happened to them, all at the height of their lives, put them in an extreme, chaotic state. The crime can be perfectly extracted from the novel, and the narrative of someone who lived through a complicated time remains and moreover has to learn. I like to torture the heroes a little bit, but I also want them to know that the important thing is to take advantage of the circumstances that are presented to us.
It also likes rain and other storms, but drought lurks. Is he the worst enemy?
On a daily basis, it can happen and is very worrying, but there are other very dangerous threats related to war, economics, uncertainty, artificial intelligence… Worrying about drought at a political level about ensuring that water is well managed and transformed in the long run.
Rafa’s character suffers from what is now called tyranny, a very serious problem that is current due to the suicide of a young woman. Hasn’t the situation changed much since the 80’s?
Many things have changed for the better because people with cerebral palsy like Rafa go to school, learn, integrate, undergo physical rehabilitation… tyrannyIt affects young people of all kinds and continues to be a terrible pain in society. I think this can only be combated by promoting education and empathy from childhood, but to convey this, their relatives, teachers and everyone around them must have.
Do you agree with Noah’s statement: “Life is reduced to two things, love and fear.”
Yes, totally. Both are lessons we learn from the people who raised us in childhood, and we teach without saying a word. What is love and what to fear is learned at home when we are little. For some it is by chance and unfortunately for others the same pattern is repeated throughout life. If love is toxic, confusing, negative, you can get away with it, but breaking the mold is very difficult. The same thing happens with fear, but the scary thing is that you are afraid of what is happening at home. And we turn to John Biblia and Amaia Salazar and the importance of preserving childhood. It’s important to fill them with empathy so that they don’t bully, respect, mistreat, or force-kiss each other later, because nothing is forced.
how much do you owe Psychosis in the creation of your character?
Elizondo’s analysis of the analogy used to explain where John Biblia’s impulses came from at a particular moment uses this example because film was in vogue at the time and had a huge impact on everything psychopathy.
Is the doctor’s last name a tribute to the trilogy that led him to success?
A salute that many readers have commented on and told me at their book signings. I love listening to them. I was greeted very lovingly on the island and I greatly appreciate that. I know many book clubs have asked me to come for years and until now this has not been possible but I will be back.
waiting for the flood Unlike previous novels, there is no Basque mythology.
Like the legend of the weeping woman, the analogy with Scottish mythology occasionally arises. It is inevitable for me to touch upon these themes because when I researched the trilogy, I learned that myths are reproduced many times over in places where there is no theoretical communication all over the world, from Mesopotamia to the present. When human beings find themselves in moments of uncertainty, they always seek explanations and if they do not meet them with logic, there is a myth.
What remains of Domingo Villar in his latest novel?
It affected my emotions. I was writing about someone who knew he was going to die because he was very sick, and suddenly Domingo’s death came. But my hero is afraid to leave nothing, he realizes that he has devoted his whole life to work and has given up on many things, from love, friendship, living … unlike Domingo, who has planted a lot of love. he and he left his mark.