Gijón, Jul 10 (EFE).-The writer Paco Gómez Escribano has once again used the extreme characters that characterize his work in his latest novel, “Narcopiso”, which he presented this Monday at Gijón’s Black Week because they help him to social and political criticism, which is what “interests” him in literature.
The author has said that his work is a mixture of dirty realism with crime fiction in which the characters, always extreme, anti-heroes who have nothing to lose, have a predominant role over the plots and stories.
“Normal literature doesn’t interest me, its characters bore me, what I’m looking for is the sinister side and I don’t like to make other types of stories”, he highlighted in a meeting with the press at the Gijón festival, in which He has been a regular participant since he presented his first novel, “El círculo alquímico”, in 2011.
Industrial Technical Engineer in Electronics, Vocational Training teacher and musician as well as a writer, Gómez Escribano has published eight books before “Narcopiso”, a story inspired by seeing a fight between two junkies armed with katanas at the doors of a building where they were sold. drugs.
In this novel, the author has developed a plot in which Pirri, Spider, Scissors and Pearl accept the task of evicting a mafia of drug traffickers who occupied a flat for their businesses and make life miserable for the old. retirees living there.
True to his style, Gómez Escribano has focused the story on a small space in the neighborhood, a characteristic place, which in this case is Julito’s bar, a kind of base of operations for this group of “hangers”, of which he is also a member. Part La Carmen, a false pythoness who survives charging for guessing a future she has no idea about.
Added to this particular group of veterans, heroin survivors, are the Spider’s nephews and their friends, who call themselves the “brothers” and who make up the new generations that the old ones do not understand.
The writer has said that the underworld of the neighborhood has changed since he began to make a “social cartography” in his books, and the new youth gangs share their fate of failure with the previous ones, the null capacity for integration, but without the values loyalty, solidarity and commitment of veterans.
He explained that at first the gang from Julito’s bar decided to confront the drug mafia for money, given the inaction of the security forces to evict them, but then they ended up doing it for “dignity”, to defend a territory against the invasion of people from outside
“In this case, they are killed who decide to face a powerful mafia, but they have nothing to lose either,” he stressed.