Santander (EFE) her novel “Of beasts and birds (Galaxia Gutenberg)”, “gives her a lot of security” to always carry a book in her bag.
“I like to feel that the novel is the home in which there is someone waiting for me,” said Adón (Madrid, 1971) in a meeting with the press in Santander on the occasion of his participation in the Literary Tuesdays of the Menéndez Pelayo International University.
The writer understands literature as “a secret and silent dialogue” with a capacity to foster the imagination like no other discipline.
He denies alcohol because he “likes to be in control” and his characters get “infected” from that. “They are very controlling,” stressed Adón, whose “world revolves around letters” because she, in addition to writing novels, stories and poetry, is an editor and translator.
As soon as a novel is finished, he “immediately” starts another, and takes advantage of any time, including the train trip to Santander this Tuesday, to advance his stories. She admits, yes, that since “Dolor (2020)” she has not written any collection of poems that she is proud of.
Nature, feminism and the individual-group struggle
He defines his writing as an attempt to “insinuate, rather than establish, and to open paths, rather than define them in a totally exhaustive way.”
His literature is marked by nature, to “lock up the characters and present situations of isolation in houses” that determine their behavior; feminism, because “absolute equality has not yet been achieved”; and also because of the “struggle between the individual and the group”, which she has explored in “Las efímeras” and, above all, in “Of beasts and birds”.
“Once again, although it is not even remotely an autobiographical novel, there is something there that derives from my own biography, and that is that groups make me very nervous,” explained Pilar Adón, who prefers relationships ” from you to you”.
As a reader, she doesn’t like to be given “everything chewed up”. “For me, literature is never a monologue, but a secret and silent dialogue that occurs when the reader is alone with the text”, she has influenced.
In his opinion, “very interesting books” are being written in Spain and he mentions some authors such as Sara Mesa, Jon Bilbao, Marta Sanz or Ángela Segovia
Knowing that he is not impartial, Adon asks to talk about reading as the “most fun, entertaining, enriching and culturing” activity. “Literature has the wonderful gift of fostering the imagination,” he has said.