The Argentine writer Guillermo Saccomanno wins the Premio Biblioteca Breve

Monday, February 8, 08:40 AM Barcelona, 8 feb (EFE) .- Argentine writer Guillermo Saccomanno has won the Biblioteca Breve Prize with his novel "The Office" which was presented to the award, which convenes under the Seix Barral Calem pseudonym. The jury, made by José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Pere Gimferrer, Ricardo Menendez Salmon, Rosa Montero and Elena Ramirez has taken the decision of the decision "unanimously". The winner, who will receive 30,000 euros which is equipped with the Biblioteca Breve, was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is the author of novels and short stories like "risk", "Robert and Eve", "Good grief", "The kid" and the trilogy are "The language the raid, "" An Argentine Love "and" 77 ", with which he won the Dashiell Hammett in the Semana Negra de Gijón, 2009. Saccomanno, explained the editor Elena Ramírez was unable to come to Barcelona to receive the prize "for health reasons two days ago the doctors advised against the trip from Argentina." Ramirez revealed that when faced with the work "all the jury knew that we had a major work." The clerk "tells the story of a gray man, an officer willing to endure any humiliation to that of keeping his job until he falls for a secretary, and that day is another person feels. The context in which the story occurs "a militarily besieged city with helicopters, which gives the novel a component of science fiction, but does not proceed in the future, but that can happen in any city today anywhere in the world. "Precisely this" underworld "is, in view of Rosa Montero, "the transcript of a very atmospheric book, in which this infernal society makes people miserable beings in even murderers." In his view, one could consider "the clerk" as "a novel antiutopianism science fiction, but also a political novel, moralizing ethics. "According to Caballero Bonald, the protagonist is an" antihero " listed as "lost in life, you do not know where to stop and so grabs the reader from the beginning." The style, he argues, is "deliberately harsh, terse, almost telegraphic sentences, quite in keeping with the rhythm of this character. "Without him, the publisher has sent a check for Saccomanno in which the writer himself explains that the Lower, in Buenos Aires," focuses on humus in this novel, and remember that in this space are business towers, the stock market, foreign banks, multinationals and government ministries. At night, he continues, when the City goes out on the threshold of these cathedrals of money begin to see the homeless, "those stinking bastards expelled from a system where believed. "As I watched this counterpoint, Saccomanno more than once thought of these characters," not very different in Akaki Akjákievich degradation of 'The Overcoat' by Gogol, or the underground man Dostoevsky, "says the Argentine author. Perfectionist as few, Saccomanno wrote" clerk "in the summer of 2003 in a month, but at that time" knew that the process of correction and adjustment, perhaps the real stage of writing - take me six years, "he says. For Saccomanno, his novel set in a time where live elements of yesterday with tomorrow's technology" has nothing new "and adds:" That time is now zero science fiction. That great city overflown by helicopters and exploding in attacks can be yours or mine "On behalf of the winner, the writer Rodrigo Fresán, which has maintained a close relationship with Saccomanno in recent years, has said it is" a strange book, but also consistent in the work of William. "He believed in" clerk "confluence of influences as varied as the Robert Arlt of" The Pillowman "as the breath of Kafkaesque literature or the desire of Russian writers to capture the soul of the characters through writing. Average (Not Rated)