Francesc-Marc Ãlvaro and Javier Melero chat with the writer and journalist Daniel Vázquez Sallés from his latest book, El PrÃncipe y la muerte (Folch
In this work, written on a Greek island in a voluntary retreat, Vázquez Sallés faces mourning as “a shipwrecked man” and tries to order what he has experienced and felt in front of the landscape of his childhood vacations. With harshness and clarity, the man who would have wanted to be an archaeologist digs into the most extreme aspects of his experience in the face of the vulnerability that transforms everything.
“I see the world with Marc inside meâ€, reveals Vázquez Sallés, who before writing about his son, he wrote about his father, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In this conversation, the good and bad doctors also appear, as well as those special people who, like angels, made Marc’s life easier. Love, heartbreak, memory, struggle, destruction, hope and beauty are paths for which the honest and precise word of Daniel Vázquez Sallés leads us.
