Ganarse la vida

"The rite of passage between writing for yourself and publishing is like jumping a chasm. It often overwhelms responsibility." A beautiful chronicle of David Trueba at the age of twenty-five after his first novel. David Trueba evokes episodes from his childhood and adolescence, as a portrait of the forge of a writer, twenty-five years after the publication of his debut Open All Night. Thus, the reader has in his hands the beautiful chronicle of an emotional and professional education. The large family, the overcrowded apartment, the days without school, the first readings and films, the first myths, the failed catechesis, the irruption of the flesh. Trueba captures a way of learning to be in the world while showing the transition between playing at writing and living from writing. "The rite of passage between writing for yourself and publishing is like jumping a chasm. It often overwhelms responsibility." A beautiful chronicle of David Trueba at the age of twenty-five after his first novel.