Freedom was known as Eduardo Mendoza | Culture | EUROtoday

You need to be auctionally naive to assume that the title of this written article with an absolute smile of happiness was going to have one thing unique. Because it’s evident that Eduardo Mendoza, the laureate novelist this Wednesday with the Princess of Asturias Award of the Letters, is a case – the Spanish author extra English that I do know, for the right mixture of skepticism and humor -, however there could be nothing extra topical than holding this piece “the truth about the Mendoza case”. Wow, it could be ridiculous. Because, in actuality, 49 years in the past we already superior to all Juan García Hortelano when the nation had solely two days of life and revealed the primary literary criticism within the newspaper: it was about The fact in regards to the Savolta case After the National Prize award.

Mendoza had completed the primary manuscript in 1973 and needs to be said that one among his first readers would show to be an actual privileged cranium when analyzing it. “Stupid and confused novel, without feet or head,” stated the censor who learn the novel when he was nonetheless titled Soldiers of Catalonia. He didn’t perceive something as a result of he was most likely disconnected from the aesthetic society that, on the gates of democracy and from Sant Jordi of 1975, he learn fascinated the primary novel of that Barcelona son of an official, a legislation graduate and that at thirty -few he had began New York as a result of he wished to breathe freedom, whereas working as a translator for the UN.

When he returned and found in his account 1,000,000 pesetas for copyright, his life modified him for the great of tens of 1000’s of readers. The success of Mendoza, since then and till as we speak, has to do with that knowledge britishhowever utilized to the Spanish actuality to clarify it critically and go away the operation of studying with a smile within the conscience after having spent a couple of hours of happiness, sitting subsequent to a hooligan lucid as cultured as hunter, which has at all times had the class of hiding its expertise.

Great theories are usually not wanted to know their case. The nice advantage of this author who walks in Barcelona as he would do for London has been crafty as a narrator to replace genres affected by the discredit of cults and extracting all potential profit to the police novel (let’s begin with The thriller of the haunted crypt) or the novel for deliveries (dwell No information of That!) To make the favored with one of the best literature collectively. To clarify this course of, lecturers used the postmodernity label, however in actuality and in order that we perceive one another, it was the replace of that everlasting Cervantine lesson – the Cervantes Award performed in 2016 – which makes it unattainable to separate one of the best literature of a really human temper. Of the Barcelona that constructed its modernity in The metropolis of prodigies till the criticism of the Olympic Barcelona of Mauricio or the first electionshis work has been the fixed demonstration of the worth of freedom, and happiness, which may be found within the novel.