Discover the first novel by Manuel Vazquez Montalbán



It will be published by Navona Publishing next fall The first novel by Manuel Vazquez MontalbánUnpublished and there has been no news of its existence. The discovery, by prof Jose Colmeroexpert in the work of journalist and writer, even surprised the author’s family Galendez. “This is a discovery of great importance,” explains Navona editor Ernst Folch. Not only because it is an extraordinary novel, but because it constitutes his entire style, its world, its paradoxes. It is a unique book and the fact that it is his first novel makes it a momentous discovery. It is as if we have found Writer’s black box” He explains enthusiastically.

“For me it was a surprise,” admits Ibn Montalban, who is also a writer for Daniel Vazquez-Sales. “The first thing I thought was: how could something like this go unnoticed? The next thing I asked was: Is it complete I called my mom, who didn’t remember anything about the novel.

The Vázquez Montalbán family donated their enormous heirloom (boxes with papers, manuscripts and various documents) to the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Between 2016 and 2020, the fund was classified, but in the middle of the pandemic, something was found that caught our eye. In a box with a label 1962-1965. From the library they contacted Colmeiro, Professor of Spanish Philology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), who confirmed the result: a manuscript of a novel typewritten in three inks, carefully corrected, by hand and in different colors and (here comes an important fact) He presented the award-winning Biblioteca Breve. It is not an incomplete novel, and that is what makes it an extraordinary find. Montalban never told his family about it, but for some reason he kept it in a drawer And he didn’t ignore it. She knew that one day someone would find her. It’s a mystery” says Folch.

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“For me it was a surprise,” admits Ibn Montalban, who is also a writer for Daniel Vazquez-Sales. “The first thing I thought was: how could something like this go unnoticed? The next thing I asked was: Is it complete I called my mom, who didn’t remember anything about the novel.

The Vázquez Montalbán family donated their enormous heirloom (boxes with papers, manuscripts and various documents) to the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Between 2016 and 2020, the fund was classified, but in the middle of the pandemic, something was found that caught our eye. In a box with a label 1962-1965. From the library they contacted Colmeiro, Professor of Spanish Philology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), who confirmed the result: a manuscript of a novel typewritten in three inks, carefully corrected, by hand and in different colors and (here comes an important fact) He presented the award-winning Biblioteca Breve. It is not an incomplete novel, and that is what makes it an extraordinary find. Montalban never told his family about it, but for some reason he kept it in a drawer And he didn’t ignore it. She knew that one day someone would find her. It’s a mystery” says Folch.

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The novel, whose title is unknown at the moment, also has a CV component Which makes it the most interesting article. The main character is a writer I just got out of jail Like Montalban, who spent 18 months in Lleida prison, and is having a hard time adjusting to his new life.

“It belongs to a complex period in my father’s life.”, as Vasquez-Sales, who has not yet been born, points out. Banned from writing in the political media, he was restricted to decoration and mldr magazines. The novel tells of a period of disappointment. and censorship” the goal. Foreign names such as Ilsa, Admusen or Laarsen are used in the novel, and the action takes place in the Dutch city of Leiden circumvent Franco’s censorship, although Folch maintains that geographical references, details of bars and the Fira de Barcelona make the Catalan capital quite identifiable. “It’s a wonderful account of the sixties in Barcelona, A scathing and harsh portrait of Barcelona society At that time, life in prison and the struggle in hiding seemed to Vázquez Montalbán himself to be scandalous,” Folsch points out.

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