The Carlos Fuentes Cultural Center, located in this capital, was the setting for the meeting between intellectuals and lovers of literature, filmmakers, poets, journalists and young audiences, who shared with the author and were able to listen, in his voice, to passages from the novel.
Laura “La Loba” is the central figure of the story, arising from hours of reading poetry written by female hands and a trip to Budapest, where Pérez visualized the beginning of “La Flama del Alma”.
The text captures the troubles, defeats and liberation of an Andean, Ecuadorian woman, with a story that may be common to many.
In statements to Prensa Latina, Pérez stated that the book is the story of a female passion, in the midst of a patriarchal world and the relationship with the Andean cultural world and the reminiscences of a Hungarian past.
Likewise, he referred to the duality between doing journalistic work and literature at the same time.
“Journalism at this time has become much more complicated and complex, when some have made this profession a lever to generate more income or to destroy others,” he estimated.
He also detailed that the idea for the novel arose since 2017, at a time when he was the victim of an unfair media lynching and after finding peace and calm in reading.
On the combination between both passions, he specified that both are essential and use the word as a common tool.
As for new projects, the intellectual announced that he is working on a new novel, but without offering other details.
After the presentation, the public that purchased the book was able to share more closely with the author and take home the autographed work.
Several bookstores in the capital offer the narrative piece, Pérez’s second novel after “La Ceniza del Adiós” and other journalistic investigative books. In the words of the Ecuadorian poet Aleyda Quevedo, her most recent installment: “It has a fresh and fluid architecture, it amalgamates letters and verses, clean prose and the salt of the word.”
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