playwright from Alicante lola blasco argued this Friday literary creation like “comfort place”In the opening speech of the Alicante Book Fair, which is celebrating its 53rd year, At Seneca Square until May 14. It’s opening day meeting with books Ellense, another female writer, was also cast. Elia Barcelopresenting his new novel, the love that killsA don’t go honored women artists forgotten by history and defends sees art as “a human necessity”.
Blasco won the 2016 National Award for Dramatic Literature for her work My century, my beastintroduced by the Cultural Council, antonio manresaunderlining the need for the playwright, “Communication through dialogue and work”when you explained it “Writing is a tool to denounce situations that I find unfair. That’s what I dedicate my theater and my time to.”
Blasco benefited from the motto of the fair, Stories in the light of the Mediterraneanto get to know to influence with sun and mediterranean dramatic literature with the stories that took place on this stage and that he dreamed of Antonio Machado”remembering his childhood in exile with the note found on his jacket after his death, in front of the sea”, evoked the blue days and sun of childhood.
the creator has viewed some of his works created in this land harmony of silenceTalking about the abuse of power, with the Spanish Civil War in the background, Grandma’s family history and his piano, which he sold to a pilot from the national side and never touched again. “I wanted to save his story from oblivion as a personal story and a story. collective history It’s about what happened here, like the bombing of the Central Market on May 25, 1938, or the abandonment of the Republicans in the port of Alicante, because in his work this story changed, and so “I appeal to creation as a place of solace capable of even rewriting history”.
Blasco also addressed the situation. Sahara“abandoned and badly colonized” or Accumulating deaths in the Mediterranean in the migration process. at work Confession of Don Quixote, speaks of “the loss of faith in the face of indifference when we think of the deaths of thousands of refugees who fled their countries from the war and eventually died before they reached our shores.” In his work, the character loses faith and imagination. “And it’s there in the impossibility of imagining new worlds where you stop creating, where only grief is allowed.”
The playwright stated that he felt impressed by his work. “Shakespeare, Cervantes and Lorca to whom I always come back. And European theater interests me more than anything else in German theatre. Heiner Mullerpolitical theater bertolt brechtand authors like Jelinek, Sarah Kane, Thomas Bernhard“.
Elia Barcelo and Santa Rita
Next, Elia Barcelo held a meeting with the public. Cristina Consuegrabout his latest published work, the love that killsis the second part of his tetralogy set in an imaginary place in the Mediterranean, inspired by the province of Alicante where the murders were committed. Santa Rita is an old hospital converted into a mansion and owned by an elderly writer where they live. different generations in a social way.
identified as the author, “Our Patricia Highsmith” By Consuegra, this place “Basically it’s a utopiaA dream we all have in a place where we have privacy but also live in a community where everyone pulls the same car in the same direction. And this is utopian in a world. polarization“.
Inside the love that killsensuing Death in Santa RitaBarceló raises entertainment novel but also places of resistance and one space for artbecause at the same time “A tribute to the neglected women artists throughout history” after thinking about the author “Art is necessary for life to work.People need it because we are creative by nature, and I feel a lot of politicians don’t realize that.”
upcoming serials
The author also wrote that one of his novels, long shadowsto be taken TV series Filming has already started in Madrid and will soon be shooting the scenes as well. in handThe place where the story of a group of friends who benefited from Moorish and Christian festivities.