Amazon in the literature are few novels that deal with journalists and the social and political structure of Loreto. Among them we can mention "Pantoja and the Special" by Mario Vargas Llosa, who in a tangential way reflects the corruption that occurs in the media. But Ricardo Virhuez, with the novel "The journalist "(Lima, Arteidea, 1996), who bare the murky world surrounding the alleged" journalists "and regionalism discussed Loreto. Armed with a poetic prose, the narrator does not only social passionate plea, but also a beautiful novel, described by the poet Julio Nelson as "a perfect novel" and greeted favorably by national critics, what makes us envision a new novel in the Peruvian Amazon. (Manuel Mosquera Mugarra).
An Interview with Ricardo Virhuez.
By: Carlos Fuller
Why journalism as a subject?
"It's something that attracts me as a child. That is, the issue of freedom of expression. When I read the biographies of great writers and philosophers of past centuries and was 'seen' by the burning of their books and the persecution that they had to say against power, felt that they were heroic past and we never would live. But reality showed me otherwise. Not only by burning books as "The City and the Dogs" by Mario Vargas Llosa, but because a hundred copies of my first book published in 1992, "The fires of man", was seized by police in Huancayo and not I was allowed to presentation at the National Institute Culture or in college. Could I speak of freedom of expression? I still love this theme.
But you refer primarily to journalism Loreto.
"Yes, and it's a shame what happens in reality. What happens in the novel is a synthesis of a series of behaviors that we all know and are presented not to criticize sterile, but to delve into the issue, feeling it close and make a new behavior to mobilize the consciences honest. Do not forget that the narrator character in one of his outbursts reflexive calls for a critical generation to Iquitos.
Some say you wrote with some anger .
"Not true. Writing is an indescribable pleasure, which is enjoyed with intuitive awareness and love for the word. Wrote love of language, of my characters and their problems. What happened to them happened to me while writing. It is written with the soul, heart, yet the body. What happens is that some readers have "discovered" that one of my characters are very much a real person not exactly pleasant. What to do. Everyone has the right to interpret the novel to their taste.
Juliana When it appears, the narrator becomes a poet .
"Oh, Juliana ... Juliana is a beautiful woman and is also a trap. You've observed that there are basically two languages: the referral to the crime that is realistic and at times reflective and raw, and referred to Juliana, who is poetic. Well, the novel I have worked on the basis of contradictions. There is the secret of everything. A careful reader must not remain only in the literal statement, but must pay attention to the irony. The irony symbols amounts to many of the characters and their actions, and also desecrates, making them less solemn and one to make fun of them. Juliana is not just a woman. It is also a goal, a goal, a dream. So the narrator is never put to bed.
This is not your first novel .
"It's the seventh and last I wrote. And this is ironic, because more work novels were the first cost me, when you shake in terror at the blank page and is known inexperienced. Then you're letting go and the thing comes out with less trauma and more naturally. I do not want to say that writing is easy, but you feel more comfortable, more confident with the word, which is our friend, our wife, everything.
Any self about your novel?
-Mmm ... I think thoughtful style that appears in various moments of the novel stops the action, creating the false image of characters too Lucid, an appearance of didacticism that was never intentional.
And finally, what other literary plans?
-In writing, many plans. Publish, do not know. That depends on the publishers.
(Published in Iquitos, 1996).
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