Yesterday we were talking about the strange illusion that some presenters have who write little novels believing that this is how they save themselves from the garbage TV they produce on their sets every day.
The same thing happens to some politicians. Tired of the vile lowercase politics practiced every day, they invite friends and acquaintances to present a little book they’ve written. They fall into the illusion that they are glorifying the soul in this way. He is very human. Sometimes it even happens that your book has acceptable sales rates. Another thing is that someone has read it to him in addition to buying it.
This is what happened to the flying reporter of ‘El intermedio’ isma juarez when I was there the other day at the presentation of the PP’s assistant secretary’s novel ‘The Devil’s Place’ Esteban Gonzalez Pons. guests were entering (Hope AguirreCarlos Iturgaiz, Andrea LeviCelia Villalobos….) Y juarez I asked them if they had read any books. Gonzalez Pons. Especially his previous novel ‘Them’. And everybody said yes, but nobody knew how to explain what it was all about.
Ah! We said this: It is easy to get a book from a politician friend, the difficult thing is to read it. It is preferable for politicians who want to raise their morale when well looked after to devote themselves to writing short stories or novels. And that they avoid political writing with historical claims. Less his autobiography.
A few days ago Xavier Graset (‘Més 324’, TV-3) interviewed the historian Borja de Riquer after his monumental work Francesc Kambo (‘The final portrait’, Edit. Critica y Edicions 62, 2022) and richer He told her: “We historians look with tweezers at the autobiographies of politicians. They tend to distort the truth to justify themselves.
effectively. They are not reliable. In order to be popular, they paint the film of the political period they live in according to their liking. In order not to be harmed gonzalez pons, In ‘El estano de Satán’ he cleverly embraces the barbaric genre of fiction and describes how the Madrid Congress of Deputies was built over a dreadful cemetery, the gateway to hell, a kind of enormous afterlife.
Moreover, when he saw the sarcastic reporter approaching him, isma juarez with the book he put on the first page: «For a friend name, who knows vampires exist and interviews them.” That’s a very interesting dedication. It confirms that there are vampires in politics.