Todoliteratura interviews the Canary Island writer Alexis Ravelo: “the thriller has always been critical of society”

‘La ceguera del cangrejo’ (The Crab’s Blindness) is the title of the new novel by Canary-islander Alexis Ravelo, on the figure of the multitalented artist César Manrique, whose centenary was celebrated a month ago.

This artist from Lanzarote was able to reinvent a whole island with a set of new environmental values. The author from the Canary Islands, taking the works of the former as his starting point, rustles up a passionate storyline around the death of the sweetheart of protagonist Angel Fuentes, who had written a book on the artist. “The novel came from a bunch of ideas I had in mind, but the main one was that I wanted to base a novel on mourning, in this case the loss of Olga Herrero, Angel’s partner”, Alexis Ravelo states at the start of our interview, at the headquarters of the publisher Siruela, which has represented him since the publication of ‘La otra vida de Ned Blackbird’ (Ned Blackbird’s Other Life). “A novel that no one would publish for me because it was unlike anything else I’d done, until I came across Editorial Siruela”, reflects the writer.

Read the whole interview here: TodoLiteratura (Javier Velasco Oliaga) 

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