When I was a kid I wouldn’t distinguish fiction reality and when the teacher ordered an article on a historical figure, he was inspired by the teacher. Christa McAuliffeone of the crew members defiantexploded on takeoff. That he was a friend of his mother and Loved the ensaimadas on Petritxol street. the teacher sawwriter’s wood at Laura Ferrero (Barcelona, 1984), writer astronauts.
He tells this joke His recently published novel is “a constellation of fiction, research, and biography” describing how his family perished. her when her father left her mother with a baby. who is the author Known for his storybook empty swimming pools He will present his story this Thursday at 7 PM at Fira del Llibre on Paseo del Born.
“I didn’t understand what the teacher meant with this sentence as I had no reference as a writer, but I was excited. I thought maybe I could be someone important as every child wants, and I loved writing. However, basically it was a warning from my extreme imaginationIt now takes advantage of this to “enter a place where gravity is other than in space,” as defined by. writing. Ferrero finds this “emancipatory, transformative in the sense that to write is to live twice”.. In the author’s words, he says, “Life is vibrant and forward-flowing, it’s not just a personal experience, it can be stopped and looked back if you write anything down.”
In his case, the mats family or absence, this is how an 80s girl with divorced parents felt. “There were only two children in this situation at school. There was a taboo called separate parents because there was no reference, but now it is very different. We are learning about divorce and it is very useful for those who experience it in childhood. . Of course, a breakup at first is still traumatic.So it’s a loss, but if done well it saves a lot of minor problems later on, especially from suffering from apathy or bad faces in your own home.”
Family and loneliness are two recurring themes in Ferrero’s narrative. and, as he himself admitted, they hatched in Los astronautas. “I think the novel I’ve written all my life. The above were clues to my family’s history, although books, like people, must find their moment.” This happened when the author saw a photo of himself and his family and decided to start writing.
“I considered doing an investigation in principle, but because the heroes couldn’t or didn’t want to give me the data, I put it on hold.” He confirms that if he had continued on the first try, he would have angrily typed this out. “It’s not a good idea to approach this kind of novel with a grudge, but it is necessary to try to understand what you don’t know.”. He figuratively went into space to talk about his family, although the temporal distance was also important. “I wrote the book at different times in my life, it’s a very interesting literary process because I’ve been changing with history too. Sometimes we have to go the distance to see things from a perspective,” he explains.
photo albums
As a child she didn’t understand why her mother’s photo albums had rectangles without pictures, “it’s very disturbing, because you know something is missing, it’s a lost story.” In digital photography, although it is sustained and strengthened, it does not happen. “a simulacrum of a life that never existed and where evil can be the opposite”as stated astronauts about the analog photos he can see. “Inside social networks this is multiplied by a thousandWhile the desire is the same on albums from the ’80s and ’90s, the design of a life that needs to be perfect, with photos of birthdays and Three Kings Day, they’re all smiling”.