Alberto Díaz was born in Barcelona in 1975. He studied law and worked as a private investigator, but chose to focus on something else. Takes over a decade devoting himself to music journalism in magazines like Route 66 and Popular1, but never studied journalism. Chasing Angels is his first novel.
- How and when did you know you wanted to be a writer?
-How and when. Well, this question is difficult. The first question from the list and you start strong. I suppose I could cobble together a good story and say that how they should respond to some kind of mystical revelation or something. I do not know, the poltergeist of Lovecraft and Raymond Carver made me a zombie could visited a night of fever, for convincing me to write something ... It would be nice, right? That would be a "how" pretty powerful. But what will, I think the taste for writing, I was coming without realizing kid (there you have the "when"). Small, in my years of school, GBS before, I used to write and draw in spiral notebooks very topical stories about action heroes, monsters and strange adventures, and then was going from my classmates. Used to like a lot. Still I have a lot of those books stored there; even made my own 'choose-your-own-adventure' ... From kid was very strained by these booklets.
- Why did you become a writer?
"Well, this is easier: you do not 'becomes a writer." At least, I would swear that it is virtually impossible. It's not like getting into a teleportation machine and leave it become human fly, you know? I find it very odd to say I'm a writer, but has written a few novels and have one published, blah, blah, blah. I prefer to think I'm a guy who writes, really. Putting the official label is very pedantic, so if you ask me why I gave to write, I'll tell you the same as before: it comes without you noticing, catches you by surprise and, naturally, you do so you until that is part of your life. It's that simple. Anyone can write, but not everyone needs it. I am among those who have the monkey on each day, there would have the reason for all this: addiction pure and simple.
- Where do you look and find inspiration?
-Any site worth only a matter of being very attentive. Or terribly distracted, it does not matter, because it's linked with inspiration, she always ends eligiéndote, You have nothing to do. In my case, I like small things from around me, silly or trivial details, captured with the microscope and then zoom out wild, letting anything happen. That's funny, and not have to move much. I guess that much of the inspiration I find in the cartoon of the everyday. The usual ritual, magnified to ridiculous extremes of an epic.
- Are you a maniac at the time of writing: you do it at the same time, same place, still some kind of ritual or else you just go with the inspiration, wherever you are?
-No. No rules or hobbies. I let it happen, I caught where I caught. Carry a notebook is very useful in these cases, or some post-it notes, paper napkins in a bar, whatever. Some time ago was carrying a digital recorder in Agent Cooper plan, you know ... but this was really Mars. It is rare to hear yourself remembering ideas or images, like a yo-the-past with guidelines that, for a moment, made sense, but hours later they have none: "thermos full of French champagne, plastic tupperware all one hundred Iranian caviar at the top of "... things like that. Once you have connected the dots is perfect, but hearing your voice dropping puzzles fully broken reasoning can be quite insane. So no tape recorders.
- How would you define Chasing angels?
"Definitely, it is an intense story. In every way. When I wrote the last word in the book and dropped its final point, I felt completely relieved. I love how it has been, it took about two years to shape it, polish it, remove all grease and polish it again ... but to build something like this has been a grueling experience. Of those that could not repeat if I tried. It's my little Frankenstein's monster, a creature that at first glance may seem frightening, but that behind the scars, hidden some strange beauty. On the one hand, horrified, on the other captive. It's dark and suffocating, but agile and, in some ways, even musical. I do not know, since I can define it in many ways, but the important thing here is that it is the reader who has his own reading of the case.
- Is there anything autobiographical in this novel?
"The novel is so narrow that we can become when we are at peak times. We all have a broken heart once and that is not pleasant, depending how strong you are, will react in one way or another, but the pain it will not remove anyone. Nor the other feelings that are part of the pack: sadness, humiliation, dependency, anger, frustration, anxiety ... in that sense we find some biography. Like the protagonist of the novel, we are all humans and we have been through such times. Now, focus on that feeling well fucked and zoom. Catch the details and force a panoramic, stretch it and caricaturízalo. The heartbreak of a lifetime turns into Moby Dick descending into hell ... a totally apocalyptic image if you are plummeting, but completely bizarre when viewed from a safe distance.
- What is the best and the worst you've heard of Chasing angels?
"The best thing is to check how much you're enjoying, no matter how I might say. For the moment, has not left anyone indifferent, and that's something I feel very proud. The worst? I have not heard anything bad yet. Well, someone told me it was "too hard", but that's good, right? because it is never too much.
- How do you come up with a story so original but at the same time violent cold, desperate, hateful, shocking?
"The idea came during a night of fever, lying in bed. I was shivering and very fucked up, and began to write in my notebook delusions very rare images without much sense of hateful people, seemingly normal people that were actually rotten inside. That, I suppose, was used to make me feel better: he preferred to be sweating and raving with fever have to change for them, or something. It was like a crazy list of people who, without any, was much worse than me. A couple of days later I take a look at those scribbles and stayed with the basic idea that the Germans call "schadenfreude" the pleasure of the viewer by the suffering or the unhappiness of others. One thing led to another and then came the germ of Chasing Angels, disgusted with his protagonist justified through the illusory capture of angels a priori more screwed him.
- What did you want to convey with such a work? "Scandalize, shock, stir consciences?
-Ni shock or remove consciousness: the last thing to happen would give me advice or trying to provoke anyone. Impact ... well, yes, a little. The novel is written in a very particular: at times dense, sometimes it is more dynamic structures, with "choruses" that are repeated many flashes, points aside, striking analogies ... The story tells a guy who is going through a bad time, a guy confused and angry, and his speech moving between hallucination and extreme consistency. In that sense, to try something as universal as the idea of \u200b\u200bindifference and feelings-satellite in a different way, I needed to find a shocking way, and so explore everything until the end.
Today -abuse, domestic violence is a blight on our society it seems impossible to eradicate. Are not you afraid that your novel accuse apology for the abuse?
"Not at all. If you've read the novel, you know that has nothing to do with it. Quite the contrary, because the message is in a completely opposite end. If someone accused me of doing something so disgusting apology, I am very upset ... because that would not have understood anything. Moreover, the public is reacting better to the novel is the feminine, a fact which I find fantastic. Unlike you, the guys are single and marbles, but can be very creative when it comes to emotional misery concerns. The novel, basically, gives you some hints about it in a rather abstract fiction.
- what writing project you're working on now?
"I started writing a new novel, the third now. The number two has nothing to do, in substance or form, with Chasing Angels, and the new, not look like the above, although the three flirt with the end in one way or another. Also will participate in an anthology of short stories Publishing plans to publish shortly Oblique, a lot of fun and still quinqui is taking shape. You'll know more soon ...
- What do you look for when reading?
I am not a Taliban demands in this respect: in literature, like in the movies or music, everything is almost said and nowadays you can find masterpieces were counted on the fingers of one hand. With a book kept me hooked until the last page, all I need. Good entertainment is always welcome, so that's the minimum I want. Of course, if I encounter a book (or movie disk) that I fly the head and leave me hanging for weeks or months, rather better. But of those that I find some time.
- What do you look when you write?
-catch myself. From a certain point and let go. The trick is to hold on to the seat and hitting good on a roller coaster lurches oxidized and half-ruined: salt and know where you can imagine where to come, but what awaits you along the journey is a relative unknown as you type. Derail play in this regard, it is the most exciting. It's what I call an approach-knot-and-outcome.
- What are your favorite writers?
"I have many, but not deny that authors like Bukowski, Burroughs or Palahniuk has made me spend great moments with his works. I do not know, there are hundreds. Dylan, Cohen, Waits, Reed, Chuck D ... these guys also write incredible text, and have influenced me more than any other 'writer' to use. Poch lyrics, rest in peace, give thousand laps you can find in any best-seller this season. Dan Brown has nothing to deal with Neil Young. Or against Neil Peart!
- What's easier, write about things you know or go with the imagination?
"A little of everything. As I said earlier, delivery of small things I know and all that wonderful imagination allows me to ... it is sometimes easy and sometimes it costs more to zoom in and get somewhere, but there is grace. No pain, no glory, right?
- What has been your personal experience in publishing and, in general, in the literary and publishing world?
- Chasing Angels is my first novel and is quite peculiar. I did not break my head both editorial, so I preferred to find one that fit with her from the beginning. Oblique editions not only would I like a glove in matters of style, but dealing with them has been fantastic. Above all, it is motivated by a passion for writing ... that's what really matters.
- How and why a law degree just to become a private investigator? How was your experience in this profession?
-not even finished his law studies. That was not me. It took me a while to realize that I am discovering more good lies to defend ourselves so I spent a little more exciting. Serving as a detective has a morbid, but is rather sacrificed (and sometimes risky) is a 24 / 7 constant that can burn a lot, but you always keep your grace and great anecdotes. I'm not working a disciple of Philip Marlowe: instead of defending or find lies, what I do is write. It is much more comfortable and just have limits.
"You're a music journalist, what are your favorite bands and artists?
"Again, too many to list them all. Earlier I mentioned a few but the list is endless ... seriously, I get bored. And if we begin to talk about music, I warn you do not stop.
- How and why you become a journalist, without having studied Journalism?
iron-Take off, really. I consider myself a guy who writes, in magazines or outside. Not that I "become" a journalist and music critic (one of the most ridiculous label there), but just started doing it for mere pleasure and ... look, I've been more than a decade writing in journals. Write-on music or mere fiction, is something entirely vocational, comes from within you, while you things to say, no matter how you do it. Like I said before, is basically a matter of necessity. In one way or another, it is important not to lose the hunger.
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