The writer, essayist, and journalist is one of Spain's leading LGBTIQ+ voices. In ‘La maldición del sí quiero’ (Suma), Jose Mola boldly mixes emotional melodrama, queer satire, and street spirituality.
The novel, which he recently presented at the Fira del Llibre de Moncofa to great acclaim, begins with a scene as improbable as it is powerful; plea to the Virgin of Guadalupe to get an ex back—and from there unfolds a romantic narrative where diversity is not a banner, but a reality, and love is not salvation, but a battlefield.
In this conversation, the writer, essayist, and journalist specializing in diversity at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), considered one of Spain's leading LGTBIQ+ voices by Vanitatis magazine and professor of creative writing, literature, and queer history at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón, discusses the origin of this novel, which he wrote in the Desert de les Palmes, his narrative obsessions, mental health, desire, contradictions, and a creative process so free that it has ended up becoming a literary pilgrimage.
