Eduardo Mendoza He stopped by the set last night ‘Anthill‘. The famous author, who is the author of novels such as ‘No News from Gurb’ and ‘City of Wonders’, recently participated in the Antena 3 program on the occasion of its launch. ‘Three riddles for the organization’A book he started writing after announcing his retirement.
“I said I should retire because I was thinking about it, but the next day I asked: ‘What do I do now?’ I started writing a novel to entertain myself. “I don’t know how to do anything else, and it’s too late to learn another craft,” said Mendoza, who won the Cervantes Prize in 2016.
As always in ‘El Hormiguero’, current political and social events were included during the interview. Pablo Motos, who saved Mendoza’s article on the origins of the ‘process’ titled ‘What’s Happening in Catalonia’, wanted to know his opinion on the Catalan conflict: “You people living there… How do you see the situation now?”
“I think it’s happening much less than they say,” Mendoza said: “There is the importance they want to give. I think there is a great fatigue in Catalonia at the moment. It has been a very tense period, it has been a very tense period, especially “everything in Catalonia . “It was a very bad time.” “What we want is to return to normal no matter what.”He claimed.
On the other hand, Mendoza said that non-Catalan journalists asked him questions “about Catalonia, amnesty and Puigdemont”, while those coming from there had other interests: “They just wanted to talk about books, football and food, they didn’t want to talk about what was going on.”. “I think the inside looks very different from the outside,” he told the Antena 3 format.
Besides chatting with Pablo Motos, Eduardo Mendoza also interacted with Trancas y Barrancas, who asked him a very challenging question. “If the average price of a book is 20 euros, how many euros does the author usually receive?”The ants threw it away.
“Look, it depends,” Mendoza said, before elaborating on his answer: “10% in principle, unless you agree on something more advantageous. A percentage of that is kept by the literary agent, the rest comes from the Treasury, and “It takes almost everything.” ” “And I have a few pennies left”assured the author to the laughter of the audience.