Confesiones de un joven novelista

"These lectures are called Confessions of a Young Novelist, and one might wonder why, considering that I am now over seventy years old. But it turns out that I published my first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, so I started My career as a novelist was about thirty years ago. I consider myself, therefore, a very young and certainly promising novelist". Thus begins this book in which the great intellectual tells how he approached fiction as a prestigious essayist, how he prepares each of his novels before starting to write, how he creates his characters and the reality that surrounds them. It also tells us about the ambiguity that the writer maintains so that his readers feel free to follow their own path when interpreting a text, as well as his ability to generate emotions in them. Why don't we generally cry when someone tells us that his partner has abandoned him and, instead, many of us get emotional when reading the episode of the death of Anna Karenina?