Luis Goytisolo: "I am a Spanish novelist"

Luis Goytisolo was awarded this Thursday with the National Prize of the Spanish Letters , a "great prestige " for this writer , who this year has also been recognized with the award Anagram Test .

   The author of works such as ' Journal 360 degree ' or ' Liberation ' has appeared before the press Thursday afternoon at the Royal Academy of Spain ( RAE ), the institution in which he held the chair C , within hours of learning that the second Spanish literature prize most important d Spain had fallen on him.

   Despite claiming that it is a prize "very important" , the writer and academic has an objection , " the statement" . " It's a bit confusing , should be called Letters Award of Spain , otherwise territorial language creates confusion in Latin America , where they believe the award is also for them," he noted.

   Goytisolo not feel a Catalan writer , as he claims that he has called throughout this day in several media. "I feel a Spanish novelist because it is the language in which I write , in which I feel comfortable. What I feel is Barcelona . Saying that I am a Catalan writer writers would offend Catalans, Catalan spelling I do not know " , says.

   Another thing to be "on the line " of other contemporary Spanish , which claims not to know , because what is clear above all is that " literature is regardless of nationalities " . " They are different concepts, there is a relationship over the language," he said.

   Asked by sovereignism boom in Catalonia , Goytisolo says he feels " a little outside" the political debate. I live " from afar " because the relationship people have with the times of the week in which is located in Madrid. The rest of the time is spent in Tarragona , in the countryside, where he is immersed in the restoration of a mill that was " made ​​a mess " .

   In his view, the situation that exists now in Catalonia has been repeated more times , as the year in which the Olympic Games were held , for example. In your opionion , these "bubbles " that " seem to disappear " and a day " prick " . " There is a real basis of nationalism which I think is a minority " has manfiestado .

REALISM OBJECTIVE : STARTING POINT

   From a young age , gender Goytisolo was imposed as objective realism authors also used as Ernest Hemingway and Cesare Pavese : " A cold and objective statement in which the author is not involved story , which brings the data so that the reader can interpret it ." This technique was developed in which ' Outside ' , the first piece that received the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1958 .

   From then developed a style that has characterized his career , which stands out above all his works Antigonia ' . He recalls , for writing this book was very inspiring the 35 days he spent isolated in prison of Carabanchel ( Madrid) , where he remained for four months.

   "They were fruitful . Was a cell without furniture, so he had to write on the ground . Nor had paper , so I used toilet paper , which I still have some pieces . Such total isolation helped me to concentrate," he says.

   Asked about the current new social habits , Goytisolo believes that " the time devoted to the screens is time that eludes traditional book reading ." " There are good times ," he says , though she says that this statement refers only to that effect , and he believes that " there will always be readers."