“Writing a novel is accessible to everyone”
Unlike Borges, you have not been able to withstand the pressure of being a “sober” storyteller!
I gave up a long time ago: The homeland of all Basques is not my first novel, as I previously published Si Sabino viviría. So it's a venial sin at this point, not capital.
Are Mom and Dad happy?
They won't be! And less jokes later, I suspect that the Basque citizens who use mama and papa are more than those who confess to the Euskobarometer... In our house it has always been mama and papa, but neither mama nor mamacita...
Since you have become a novelist, I will confess to you my eternal belief that it is more difficult to write a bad novel than any story!
Longer, I don't know. It may be harder to write an entire book than a novel. And after all, writing a novel is within the reach of anyone, as I have just shown, but forming a good storybook is not.
When I think of the Volga Battalions, I imagine them as pottokas: a grumpy pottery, a feathered pottery, an envious pottery...
Look, I'm not going to tell you how powerful each one is... at least there's no division of roles between us. I think, however, that the pots were not liberated other than us, that we are much more chauvinistic.
I was very happy for your Euskadi Prize, but you will admit that you never give it to the writers of the Patriotic Left.
And who told you that I'm not? Some days, wherever I am and with whom, I can be very patriotic and very leftist.
By the way: What part of your bohemian pose is living in Vitoria?
Does this mean that someone sees me as “bohemian”? I'm very grateful, really. You should see me every day taking our daughters to school, cooking lunch, hacking Alaitz and Maider’s CDs for them... But as for the picture, ok, I’ve probably never been the most brilliant representative of San Sebastián’s elegance.
You don't look like a football player. Do you prefer the Basque Country or the Basque Country?
In this, I agree with Rikardo Arregi and, in general, with the theses of post-independence: Basque Country, or, if you put it up, Basque City, without a doubt. How will the football team be our only brand of origin that we won’t put in English!
How many people tell you that they read your articles in El País?
number more or less similar to those who tell me that they have read those who publish them in the most “genuine” Nabarra magazine: one or none.
When and who – by the way – will write the Great Basque Novel?
This novel is already written, the fact is that it was eradicated, and it is located in a huge warehouse, with seven keys, next to the Ark of the Covenant. But I still haven't figured out who the robber was: Count Olivares, Agosti Xaho, CIA or Petronor. When I find the answer I’ll tell you... Anyway, and on second thought, who needs a Great Basque Novel?
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