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Interview | Dolores Ballas, Writer: “Intelligent Men Are Great Lovers”



You read the book, progress through it, finish it, and when you encounter it, the author, Dolores Payata Catalan translator living all over the world, namely in Mallorca, in Greece or wherever you want, tells you no, that she is only the writer, and that all that matters (the discovery of the last love, Absolute love is the title of his work edited by Círculo de Tiza) Invention. It is also based on the beautiful city of Cadiz tuna flowerWhere you were not personally only through maps.

An ingenious book, written today, that contains issues (emotional, among others) of the day, which belong in the limbo of inventions. Well, it looks real. During the reading this reader thought the blood, the humor, the letters (multiple love letters to each other) written by him (with the pseudonym Rocío) to an Englishman equal to her not in humor but in patience to love or be loved. Well, no. Dolores Payás is this woman who stands in front of the journalist, laughing at his ingenuity, but sometimes speaking as she herself writes in Absolute love About love, strangeness, laughter and imagination. Between a man in his 80s and a woman who may be 66 years old.

Q: The appearances of the novel are deceptive. Then you are not Rocio & mldr; He doesn’t even live in andalusia and mldr;

R was found. I have a very nice little house in Greece, which I bought about ten years ago, when I was translator for Patrick Lee Fermor, the English writer. I was 54 years old, I always loved Greece so much, and I said: what am I waiting for? I’m going to buy a house here. I sold a country house that I used to have in Catalonia, putting all my junk in container And I went to Greece. to mani. Hence the word crazy, by the way. So: we who live in Mani are crazy [risas].

Q: What are your hobbies?

R was found. I don’t have many hobbies. I have other shortcomings, but not hobbies.

I am worried because we are going through a tragic moment: I think our descendants’ language ability will be less than ours. This is a tragedy of Greek proportions.”

Q: What was your mood when you started writing letters in search of love?

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R was found. This book you mean, right? This book is fully programmed. Literature is my passion. In addition, I am very worried that we are going through a tragic moment: I think that our descendants’ language ability will be lower than ours. This is a tragedy of Greek proportions. I had already written a crime novel, a children’s historical novel and mldr; And I said, ‘Now I have to do a romance, a deconstruction of the story of a rich girl and a poor girl. I wanted to play with it.

Q: How were you born?

R was found. With the grace of nubia. Juliet was 13 and Romeo 14, it was the hormonal blast. Well, I replaced the hormonal explosion with literary construction. In other words: two crazy people fall in love with words.

Q: Who are these madmen?

R was found. Fox Peregrine and Rocio Medina. book characters.

Q: What is their relationship to you?

R was found. are a little. He is swimming. It could be many of my friends, one of my sisters, it could be me. I think she’s the archetype of a Latina woman. He &mldr. It’s totally weird.

Q: How did you manage to make your pseudonymous story look like?

R was found. Writing as if it were a story. It’s an anatomy of romantic love, and for it to sound real, I had to write it as if it were a historical record. But the other thing I’m bringing in here is my love of English literature. And I really enjoyed putting away the personal stuff.

Q: What about you here?

R was found. It took me many years to talk about love, because I am a very humble person and & mldr; I had to get old to do that.

Q: Why?

R was found. Because when you get older you don’t care about being silly anymore.

Q: And before that, why were you afraid to deceive yourself?

R was found. Maybe because I took myself more seriously. I don’t know. maybe. Now I no longer take myself seriously and don’t mind making a fool of myself. And it’s good that it is, isn’t it? Is it Kairos‘moment & rdquor; what the Greeks would say.

Q: That’s not you. But why do we think it’s you?

R was found. Because it’s well written, isn’t it? any question! Because it follows step by step the dramatic curve of passionate love. From construction to collapse.

Q: But in the foreground there is actually a scene with an erection.

R was found. Yes [risas]. This is a topic I really wanted to talk about. Women speak very clearly about these issues, and men don’t. Look: from a certain age we all have hydraulic problems, it’s just that they are different: women in relation to fluids and you in relation to mechanical engineering. So: we hum, give ourselves creams, take hormones and mldr; This is very difficult for you. I wanted to talk about this with humor and affection. In this case there is great love, with a certain madness, but generous love. Gentlemen get angry if they don’t get up and spoil them so-and-so. So: the book begins with a reward because that was the way to create intimacy.

Q: Has something similar happened to you?

R was found. No, I’ve had very good lovers. When men are smart they become great lovers. With intelligence, she seriously takes care of a woman. When you get older, love is the end in itself. You no longer have to worry about the economy, about raising children & mldr; You only have love

Q: What is the man who inspired you to create the protagonist?

R was found. In many men who …

P. Who were your lovers.

R was found. Not only on them. In the stories of men I read, in friends from different circles.

Q: What are circles?

R was found. In those who have homes in the countryside, for example. Patrick, who translated it, associated with people like these and introduced me to some. But I also read a lot about it.

Q: What are books?

R was found. While I was writing this novel, I was involved in another project: the selection and translation of newspaper articles from Dickens. This means that he has been with Dickens for two years. So … Maybe it affected me? I don’t know. I imagined this and wrote it as I imagined it.

Q: What about you, the woman in this story?

R was found. word love. and belief in romantic love, as in my generation: total surrender, fusion, almost mysterious sublimation. You know it’s not real, but … Wow, she’s so pretty!

Q: Where is Dolores Rocio located?

R was found. when nothing. Swimming is like translation.

P. Screenwriter, writer and always writing. And where does this rhythm that you imprint on your work come from?

R was found. I don’t know … I think the important thing is that I really love life. It’s just that I’m not educated. I read, I write, I enjoy and I don’t analyze.

Q: What? Love and sex?

R was found. No longer sex. When I was young, yes, I did what I wanted. I think I made many mistakes, but I achieved great success: I live life normally, that is, I do not oppose myself. I am very restless and uprooted. For this I am happy all over Europe. Here, in Greece, in England. I’m 67, and if sex isn’t part of a larger language now, I’m not interested.

Q: To write a love novel, do you have to feel like you are reproducing something you are experiencing?

R was found. You have to believe it. Because if you don’t believe it, no one will. To write something like this you have to know the desire, eg.

Q: Who inspired the man in this story?

R was found. This question again? Several, not just one. Some nice English. some french. Someone here too. I don’t know.

Q: Is literature as powerful as sex?

R was found. Yes Yes. Because both are pleasures.

Q: Is the word that leads to sex in this story?

R was found. Yes exactly.

Q: How delusional is falling in love?

R was found. everyone. Whatever you can imagine. It’s a personal construct, but almost all of us fall in love and are full of illusion. Maybe also because it’s what they’ve been teaching you since you were little.

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Q: Were you at least as happy to write this book as the reader who thought you were Rossio?

R was found. Yes a lot. You had a nice time.

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