One year after his death (October 3), a book recovers the professional and life career of one of the most unique journalists of recent years, Jesús Quintero. Memory of silence. The world from the hill provides the unmistakable spirit of this journalist, director and presenter of radio and television programs considered milestones in communication, mainly through fragments of some of his best interviews.
Born in San Juan del Puerto (Huelva) in 1940, Quintero began his career at Radio Nacional de España and with El loco de la hill he contributed a new style of radio that created a school and became a social phenomenon that even reached America. . His jump to television occurred in 1988 with El perro verde, where he transferred the intimate atmosphere of his radio programs and the atmosphere that would be his personal hallmark took shape, with its long silences and its accurate questions that reached the most corners. intimates of the interviewees. Throughout his career he received more than 80 awards, including the Ondas and the King of Spain for Journalism.
Edited by his family and with exclusive access to Quintero’s private archive, Memory of Silence. The World from the Hill brings the reader closer to the life and work of someone who was a master in the art of slow conversation and deep reflection. Unpublished texts on the great themes that he was passionate about and that structured his journalistic work – life, death, freedom, utopia, madness… – are included in this book along with selections from some of his famous conversations held on radio and television with such relevant figures, among others, as Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Gala, Mario Vargas Llosa, La Pasionaria, Rocío Jurado, Iñaki Gabilondo, Eduardo Galeano, José Saramago, Ana Obregón, Jorge Bucay, Chavela Vargas, José Antonio Marina, Marujita Díaz, Paulo Coelho or Julio Anguita.
The book begins with articles by two people who knew him well, Raúl del Pozo and Joana Bonet, and closes with an epilogue written as a tribute by his daughters, Andrea and Lola. Includes an interview by Jesús Quintero with his alter ego, El loco de la hill. “What do you want an interview to be? A spectacle to think about, a theatricalization of reality, although making one think, today, can be an attack.” And another gem from this self-interview: “What is your favorite trip? “A journey to the center of myself, to psychoanalysis.”
In the epilogue, his daughters write that this book captures Quintero’s vision, “his best inheritance,” and that “they have sewn it with scraps of all those certainties that his eyes found and that he wanted the world to recognize. The great questions and answers of life, those that we share beyond what separates and differentiates us, those that build better and freer beings.”
