The truth is that my first attempt as a novelist was, or has been a complete failure. The book has proved to be a bestseller. But in the first interviews and conferences for the presentation, certain questions were strange to me that, on it, I was asked by people, so suddenly had become a true student of my work and praised the volume as the best that was written in the beginning of the XXI century (if we save Vila-Matas and some other honorable exception circulating around.)
So were many references to a chapter 28 which I did not remember writing, as I recall, the editorial delivers 26 chapters. Other questions referred to the epilogue of Chapter 40 which is not represented in my memory. Of the latter, what most struck me was that it was said of it that left open the door to a sequel. I think the book did not leave the door open to anything, but is, furthermore, I never liked the sagas, except those that have managed to millions of teens who are functionally illiterate (as listed by the UN) have approached the reading.
All that, not to mention the existence of issues and questions about characters who do not remember his presence in the pages of the novel. A drunken, womanizing detective (in Spain "would be successful this type of character?), A mysterious woman who comes and goes between pages 100 and 210. The truth is that I like the secondary characters, normal, their miseries and their terrible desire to survive at any cost and shadows, and not those that concern me.
Anyway, I'll have to read my novel, as he did not remember so long, so full of clichés and typical characters and above all, because, with its rustic pasta and its cover, I made a great bedside unknown and thus continue to believe this, I can not or will not be able to re-write anything anymore.
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