Barcelona (EFE) to another.
“Very kind people, good weather, many signatures and they gave me a flower, so I’m delighted,” said Aramburu, who acknowledged that it had been difficult for him to go from one signature stand to another because there was a large mass of people, ” but I like that people occupy the streets in a peaceful way for a reason as noble as books are, ”he specified.
Seeing that he was ten minutes late, Javier Cercas, his partner at the signing and publishing label table (Tusquets), jokingly reproached him: “You were able to arrive later than me.”
Cercas had just exchanged words with a reader who asked him to sign a copy of Miguel de Unamuno, a very important writer for the author of “Soldados de Salamina” or “El impostor”.
The writer highly values contact with readers because “there is no literature without readers, who are the ones who finish the books and each reader finishes it in their own way.”
Cercas explained the case of “an 18-year-old girl who was so moved that she could hardly speak, who has read all your books, who tells you that she has found a house because she has read your books and that she wants to be a writer and that It’s still a miracle.”
Dolores Redondo: “Sant Jordi is a bath of emotions”
For her part, the writer Dolores Redondo, with kilometric queues of readers waiting for her to sign copies of her latest book, “Waiting for the Flood”, has said that this party is “impressive”, a “bath of motions and affection” from the first morning time and throughout the day.
In addition, this year, he has highlighted EFE, he is happy because he can see the smile of his readers, since “the last time I signed this day everyone was wearing a mask”, he recalled.
In pristine white, with golden boots, he knows that he will end the day very tired, but “that always goes away with a good shower and a good night’s sleep afterwards.”
Mendoza, Vila-Matas and Trueba
In another booth, a veteran like Eduardo Mendoza also attends to his readers, who with his pen dedicates both “Transbordo en Moscú”, the last title he has published, and “Sin noticias de Gurb”, from a distant 1991.
Enrique Vila-Matas, marker in hand, is drawing his autographs on several of his novels, although Ferran, one of his stalwarts, tells him that the one he likes the most is the one he has just published, “Montevideo”, “a book very special to me,” he confesses.
In statements to EFE, he recalls that, except in the last two years, he has always participated in the Sant Jordi festival, in which “sometimes I have had fun and other times I have not had such a good time, but today it is fine for to be able to get back in touch with the readers”.
David Trueba faced Sant Jordi with the same enthusiasm, who felt that he was getting older because he had to “get up early” and start the day at 9:30 a.m., and described himself as “bottom of the closet, runner of background that is always in the signatures, despite the fact that it does not have a novelty ”.
For Trueba, Sant Jordi “goes more and more towards the show every year” and he remembered with nostalgia that the year he signed the most was when he appeared with “Cuatro amigos” and “Tierra de campos”, especially with the first one, which “was the first time it came and unexpectedly it was among the best sellers”.