He would have been about 13 years old when the world of Odum made a hole in his head. Perhaps it was not called that at the time and, of course, it was hardly a dream, but from that germ, matured over the next two decades, was born El mundo secreto de Árbal, published by Código Rojo. Elena Furiase (Madrid,) has just published her first novel and confesses that the day she sat down to sign at the Madrid Book Fair she was on the verge of hysteria.
Actress, daughter of Lolita and Guillermo Furiase, she has been raised in an artistic environment of freedom and creativity. Thus, one day he decided that the time had come to dare: “I always had the runrún in my head, because I have been writing things for a long time but if I have to remember when I decided, I think it was a day when I thought about the comings and goings of our profession, I wondered why not publish, why feel ashamed. And I told myself to go for it ”. When they grow up, Noah and Nala, the children she has with Gonzalo Sierra, will be her biggest fans.
The protagonist of this immersion in a fantastic world parallel to ours and reminiscent of The Neverending Story and The Lord of the Rings, is Sara, a young girl the same age as Elena when she created her in her mind. In this story we will see very diverse characters, chosen expressly: “I have tried to do a bit of social inclusion. Now, that we celebrate Pride, I will tell you that one of the characters we could say belongs to the LGTBI collective and if it is deduced – he is sensitive and different from his family, from those of his race, they reject him – but it is not said openly It is precisely because there is no reason. It is about naturalizing what is natural. There is also a warrior, a voluptuous, fat and strong woman, tremendously beautiful: I want you to see the beauty in not so normative bodies. And the warriors are racialized.”
The book is illustrated by Celia Gómez, one of Elena’s oldest friends, a classmate at school and whom life wanted to bring together again, and her mother-in-law was the first person to read the initial draft: “She is a very After reading I trust her a lot, her criteria and although fantasy is not her favorite genre, she was hooked and that gave me a lot of strength to continue”.
We can see the actress every afternoon in the series Mía es la venganza (Telecinco), in which she plays a blind physiotherapist. As in her book, the fiction starring Lydia Bosch brings current issues to the table and with a background message: “We try to say and do things –within what our characters allow– that somehow influence the life of the people for good; send a positive message when talking about one’s own body, about blindness, about immigration”.
With this sensitivity, it is logical that he is concerned about the dark clouds of social setback that threaten on the horizon the rights of those who these days celebrate the most demanding Pride of recent years: “I only hope that everything we have achieved so far is not in vain . I have always been educated to understand all kinds of ways of loving each other: no one is a freak or it is necessary to anticipate that I have a gay friend. I have a friend, and he is already. Loving each other is a human right and it doesn’t matter how or where or to whom: if things are done with love, nothing can go wrong”.
