Mexico City, November 12. Convinced that all writers are driven by an obsession, Carlos Bardem clarifies that his is evil. Proof of this, he said, are his three most recent books: the historical novel Mongo Blanco, from 2019; the crime novel El asesino inconformista, which he recently published in Mexico and the rest of Latin America with Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) ; and Badaq, a title recently published in Spain and which the author hopes will soon arrive in these lands, with the same publishing house.
They are, at their core, three approaches, using different narratives, techniques, time periods, characters, and tones, to the same obsession: evil: Why do some people live doing it? And why do some people live suffering from it?
explained the Spanish actor and screenwriter, born in 1963 in Madrid, into a family of renowned actors.
Evil , in itself, is a very abstract concept, so it's best to approach it, scratch it a little with your fingernail, and then it immediately turns into much more concrete things, usually injustice. So, (those) are novels about why there are people who live committing injustices, atrocities, and why there are many people who live suffering them and being necessary accomplices of those injustices
, explained the historian at the presentation of The Nonconformist Assassin, held on Thursday at the Rosario Castellanos bookstore of the FCE.
In a conversation with Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, director of that publishing house, and communicator Mariana H, Carlos Bardem acknowledged that his acting career is what provides him with a living, so he must subordinate his writing career to that circumstance.
