PILAR EYRE (Barcelona, 1951) is the protagonist of the second episode ‘Books and things‘, VideoPoccast’APRIL‘, Literary supplement Iberian Press. Journalist and writer goes to the Barcelona ensemble with whom you can talk Inés Martin Rodrigo and Áx sàlmon About his latest novel, ‘Ladies well‘(Planet). His protagonist is Andrea, the owner of an architecture study, which he founded was twenty with his best friend Nieves. Forty years later, with an unpleasant feeling that he is no longer useful, Andrea must restore the reins of his life and business when her daughter Loti, heir to the study, participates in a very serious problem that could take her to prison.
“Something happens,” Eyre explains without gutting the story“To have to take care of the office again and fall in love with this path of seizure and recover again.” Feeling, a feeling of falling in love that its creator knows well. “I fall in love at any age above and so on. I remember that at the age of five I was in love. I spent years and years in love. This girl is a good girl, but she likes her pants too much, I heard my grandmother one day told her mother.
In their different books, Eyre can always be associated with the vital moment the reader goes throughSàlmon warns at the time of conversation. “On the one hand, writers have a huge ego, but on the other, we are very uncertain, which is quite an unpleasant combination with which we can cope with,” the author acknowledges. “Is it a profession, what makes us young?” They ask him. “No, what makes you young, is plans, have goals, have goals, have illusions. There is no catastrophic philosophy than one who says he lives today and forgets tomorrow, “says Eyre, which ends and admits,” This is very unpopular, I am against retirement. “
Is manifested between Anecdots and memories, with unforgettable phrases and evocation of a very moving moment that is the death of her husband“When my husband died, he was in a coma in recent days and I was next to his side in the hospital. We turned my son and touched me that night. I was dying and reading, so I put reading when I thought I thought: something happened in this room. I missed the last sigh of my husband because I was built into the book I read by his side “.
PILAR EYRE, with Inés Martín Rodrigo and Álx Sàlmon.
Eyre confesses at the end of the conversation Its aversion to verbal ageism (“The publisher wanted the sentence to come out in the promotion of the book ‘Fight against age“And I said no) and assures myself that again:”I want to age with indignation!“There is no criticism of literary critics (” critics praise the women who write if very few books write, the book every ten years and this is a very short and very excellent book that people like people and do not sell “) and Last reflection on Doña Letizia as the character of the book“She had moments she deserves to tell. The moment between her married and was a queen who had to endure the so many incompetent and all mosques that her father put on her to dress on her, so the father -in corruption did not come out of her father -V Father -v Father -v Father -V -v Father -In Father -In Father -In Father
Here you can see the whole videopodcast. And next week in “books and things”, writer Rosa montero.