Javier Diez Carmona. Interview with the author of Justice

Photography: Javier Díez Carmona, Facebook profile.

Javier Diez Carmona He is from Bilbao. With a degree in Economic Sciences and a passion for writing, he has published youth novels inspired by Basque history and mythologies. And then, for adults, sign running blind o E King. The last one he released last year is titled Justice. En this interview He tells us about her and much more. I thank you your time and kindness to serve me.

Javier Diez Carmona — Interview

  • ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: Your latest novel is titled Justice. What do you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?

Javier Diez Carmona: As its title indicates, Justice is a novel about revenge. It is a crime novel (some say that a thriller, although it is true that as the plot unfolds, the rhythm speeds up, I do not agree with that definition) in which I move on the line, sometimes blurred, that separates justice and revenge.

It develops in 2014, but its roots are in 2008, in the financial crisis that left a long trail of corpses of industrialists and disinherited unemployed, evicted or relocated to jobs with half salary and no rights. Behind the novel's long list of crimes lie two questions:Why Justice did not act (and will not act) against those who enriched themselves before and during the crisis using morally reprehensible practices? Y it is acceptable that the victims of these practices look for on your own some kind of Justice?

That is a bit the central base on which the plot rests. But he had other goals. One, basic, dignify people of a certain age. That's why my researchers already comb gray hair (those who maintain the hair). On the other hand, I wanted to pay a tribute to bilbao, a perfect setting for the crime novel. 

And I also wanted test the sagacity of readers and readers. You can convey a certain message while making a novel that is entertaining and surprises the reader.

  • AL: Can you remember any of your first readings? And the first story you wrote?

JDC: My first readings were the books of Enid blyton; The five, The Seven Secrets. Being very young I read the complete collections. Also Jules Verne. Although I soon became addicted to Agatha Christie and Stephen King (so I came out).

Of the first story I wrote I hardly remember anything. I did it on a page of a squared notebook about ten years old, and it began with the discovery of a severed hand at the bottom of a pylon. Honestly, I don't remember the ending. Maybe I left it open...

  • AL: A head writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras. 

JDC: Raymond Chandler. In black novel it is possible that it is unbeatable despite the number of authors and authors that proliferate in the genre. And always Gabriel García Márquez.

  • AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create? 

JDC: I'm going to repeat myself: Philip Marlowe. That irony of yours is unique.

  • AL: Any special habits or habits when it comes to writing or reading? 

JDC: No. I'm a simple guy. When I start to write I usually take the cup of coffee, and sometimes I play music quietly. Other times the music bothers me, I get up and get another coffee.

  • AL: And your preferred place and time to do it? 

JDC: I usually try write evening, taking advantage of the moments when no one is home, although if I feel a certain tingling in the tips of my fingers I look for a place to sit in front of the keyboard. For readInstead, I prefer the night.

  • AL: Are there other genres that you like?

JDC: I like them all. I read everything, and as much as possible (which is always less than I would like).

  • AL: What are you reading now? And writing?

JDC: I just started with Tony Veitch's papers, mcilvanney. I really liked Laidlaw's first novel and I hope the second will do the same. And I'm stumbling along with another novel with the same protagonist of Justice, Osmany Arechabala. I'm having a hard time because the guy has gotten into too much trouble and now I don't know how to get him out of it. In fact, I still don't know if he'll make it out.

  • AL: How do you think the publishing scene is and what decided you to try to publish?

JDC: It seems like a lot is published, maybe too much for what the market demands. However, for those of us who write, it is very difficult to access a publisher. Now that publishers, at least the big ones, claim to be having a good time, let's hope there are new opportunities for lesser-known authors. 

I guess trying to publish is the process that naturally follows creation. It's the hardest, and it's out of our control, so it's often frustrating. But it pays off.

  • AL: Is the moment of crisis that we are experiencing being difficult for you or will you be able to keep something positive for future stories?

JDC: For future stories, I don't think so. Today I don't see the point in writing about covid, although time tends to change, or sweeten, things. To me confinement helped me write a novelSo it didn't hurt at all.


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  1.   Adriana said

    I read the novel Justice by Diez Carmona, what's more, I shared it with other lovers of the genre and we all thought it was very good. Maybe that's why I expected a deeper report, this one has been so frivolous and common!

  2.   Juana Alondra Martinez Rodriguez said

    As Javier Carmona speaks it, I think it's a good idea for him to start reading a book to gradually relate to that type of action and I think that for me it would be a bit strange since I normally don't do that kind of thing in my free time but I think it is a very good option to be able to give my mind more space and know how to cope with more things.