Diálogo con mi sombra

Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and intermingle until they merge in the trajectory of this vitalist, visceral and carnal author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most repressive stage of the revolution in the seventies -when things like the jazz and rock-, the beginnings of his career as a radio journalist, his arrival in Havana, his relationships with mature women... And he also talks about his conception of literature: how the writer must vampirize reality , of his theory of literature constructed as a maddened reality, of the relevance of orality in his work, the construction of his antiheroes, the importance of sex in his books, the resort to irreverence and obscenity, the rejection of the current political correctness ... And he reels off his readings and influences: American comics, Kafka, Juan Rulfo, Nicanor Parra, Cortázar, Capote, Malaparte, Carpentier, Sherwood Anderson, the stories of Hemingway and Grace Paley, Bukowski and hast to the Corín Tellado that his mother read with relish.