By Geneviève Gaillard- Vanta
For Veins / Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
After 21 years pursuing war as a newspaper reporter, radio and television, Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in Cartagena has become the most widely read English author living and translated. Among his stories and great novels, "The Fencing Master" (1988), "The Club Dumas "(1993)," The Skin of the Drum "(1995)," The Nautical Chart "(2000)," La Reina del Sur "(2002)," The Adventures of Captain Alatriste "consolidate his impressive literary career. A narrative work and in the legend, the writer shares honors accumulated each week from 1991 to 4,5000.000 readers their views on the supplement The Weekly. Many articles discuss the writer's work. T is now the chair of the Royal English Academy of Language. GGV
GGV: Do you recall the intimate feeling of being published for the first time?
too long. I think it was a surprise, to see in the windows of the library a book with my name. It seemed odd that a story he had lived with me, inside my head, for so long, was now out there, available to everyone. In fact sometimes even experiment that same feeling.
he took the decision to abandon his career as a reporter, an extreme change from one day to another, will you tell with respect to what you usually call freedom?
One day I realized that my life as a reporter I had filled the backpack messy things that need tidying. For a compulsive reader like me, write to order, or the active literature was a good solution. The war was already provided for me the same war, and I thought I would no longer teach me anything new. In addition he was fed up with bosses. I wanted to be free, browse, ponder. More than a vocation (never meant to be a writer, let alone be a successful writer) the literature was a solution.
What evokes the word you write?
Work. Spending hours working on an idea, a text. Solo effort. Art, talent and all that are only tiny plots of the act of writing. What counts is throwing hours. The work continued.
As has been repeated many times, read much, do some favorite music accompanies their readings? Or are you inspired?
write in complete silence and in utter solitude. The only company are the books. The music too distracting.
you starting his novels from the first word to the last, or in the middle of the story sequences, moving chapters as excitement or development?
novels begin devoting several months to create a solid structure, and then I stick to that structure in a very disciplined. Previous scripts do scenes, character cards, travel to places to document scenarios. I never write until you are sure what I write and how I will do it.
Is it difficult to repeat the same expressions in other stories? Everyone
hoses, vices and expressions that are house brands. Some are aware and others not. One tries to avoid those things, but what is impossible is to depart in one way or expression of each. It is not always possible to demarcate the vices of style. Woe to that writer who does not have its own style and its own territory, even their own vices!
Any revelation of the magic we call inspiration? Yes
That is only 25 percent of the work of a writer. The rest is discipline and pour hours.
And when the building is not its peak?
If you sit to work, always leaves something. There are days and days splendid gray. What counts is the sum total of all that.
What was your biggest challenge?
Each novel is. The day I do not feel challenged by the story I have in my head and I intend to have, I'll stop writing.
Do you write long hand? Any favorite place to write?
write in PC and can correct the printed text by hand with pen. Work in the cellar of my home library books and 13,000 to in silence, eight hours each day from 8.00 am.
How many languages \u200b\u200bat least fairly well understood or can you speak?
English, of course. Fine French, Italian and English regular. Two hundred words of Arabic.
Are you all wake up at night to target an inspiration, or corrections?
rarely. I correct working and inspired me awake.
"The depth of the soul is achieved finally writing? No.
reached, when achieved, reflecting. Reading helps to contextualize. Writing is only one way to order the thought. Say you write is secondary. The important thing is reading and self doors open books.
has traveled extensively, do you tell about their memories of other cultures, as has been featured in The Queen of the South? A story of love in the Alhambra perhaps the time of Ataturk's revolt?
My memories just provide one point of view that I give on loan to my characters. With them build characters and situations at times, but processed through the filter of the literature. I like to write autobiography. I just did it in Comanche Territory, and it was enough.
life-changing experiences of each, how to remember the past without nostalgia or reflect on the future turns out to be the best way to live in peace?
For me, serenity is to assume that we are born, struggle, live and die. A bear that helps me to read and write. Actually the reason I write, read and navigate serene is because I intend to die when I touch.
horror of "Images fade over time? No. They
there as perpetual companions. There is nothing important that the time may blur. If something is blurred is that no one was as important as believed at the time.
Mar, books, conferences, publishers, travel, presentations, family, friends How does it get to order it still all?
With the same discipline and coolness with which I work and live. Eliminating the superfluous and giving importance to what is necessary.
has written his latest novel trying to be in the heart of "The Women", do you think have managed to break the mystery?
No. I've got to understand a little more. And that's something.
Apart from physical appearance can give a woman, what else appreciates it, outside of being a "flag"?
personal and moral value. Courage. I like women who fight without husbands or children to use as a shield. Many women
feel comfortable without a man, do you think that human life is possible without women?
At some point, yes. But getting to that time, a long way to go before.
ever said he likes to go with books in his boat, how long you can stay away from civilization?
indefinitely.
Something very particular marked his youth?
The war, of course. Women. The certainty that one day early die.
Alatriste saga aside, when can we expect another long novel?
In January (2006) start new novel, long.
From the "Comanche Territory", near about 20 books to his active, translated and sold in most of the planet, its name immortalized in a street, in the chair now so T in the SAR, can you imagine living this target type? How do you live? Recalling that everything is relative and fragile. That all falls and everything happens. "If I were able to rebuild their lives once again become a war correspondent?
If I were twenty years, yes. Actually live my life point by point as I lived, including errors and horrors. It was not a bad life.
"September 11 changed the world, Like looks to the future now?
some time, the future is not what it was. I am very glad to not be here when that future arrives.
When you think that one day grow old, "to accept this evolution, without any form of spirituality is possible?
Yes I think I simply pack my luggage. And I'm older. "Anything you would like to remember by Arturo Perez-Reverte? Nothing special. Besides, I doubt anyone will remember me in twenty or thirty years. Things happen and end. It is good that it is .-
