Photography: Julio César Cano. Facebook profile.
Julio Cesar Cano, the creator of the inspector Bartholomew Monfort, get out your fifth titled case Even death lies. The series set in Castellón continues after Murder in the Plaza de la Farola, Tomorrow, if God and the devil want, Wish you were here y dead flowers. This time the plot revolves around the consequences of the confession of an arsonist and the reunion of three childhood friends.
Born in 1965, in Capellades (Barcelona), Julio César Cano began to write after working as a musician and manager of groups and has done nothing more than chain successes. Thank you so much the time and kindness you have given me to this interview.
Julio César Cano - Interview
- ACTUALIDAD LITERATURA: You just released a new novel, Even death lies. What do you tell us in it?
JULIO CÉSAR CANO: In this fifth installment from Inspector Monfort's series, I try to put myself in the shoes of characters who have been trapped midway between childhood and adulthood. The novel deals with the damaging power that lies have on people, of what kind of fascination moves an arsonist to light the flame of misfortune, of the unknown profession of a thanatosesthetician, who is dedicated to dressing the corpses so that their relatives can dismiss them almost as they were in life, and of the ancestral pilgrimage of a people to pray to God for health, peace and rain.
- AL: Can you go back to the memory of that first book you read? And the first story you wrote?
JCC: I don't remember, it's complicated, but it would surely be something with a child or youth theme. I read comics and comics, I loved them. The first story I wrote I don't remember either. It was surely a drafting extensive for school.
- AL: What was the first book that struck you and why?
JCC: I remember they were shocking Jules Verne novels. 20.000 leagues of underwater travel o Journey to the Center of the Earth. For the settings in remote places of the world that I then looked for on a map to place myself in reading.
- AL: Who is your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.
JCC: The list would be endless, but I will quote Julio Verne, Not me austen, Agathe Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley ... And some contemporaries: Ian rankin, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Charlotte Link, Peter May, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ...
- AL: What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?
JCC: I was always fascinated by the character of Sherlock Holmes.
- AL: Any special habits when writing or reading?
JCC: I'm not a maniac in that regard. A good computer screen or a suitable notebook, for presbyopia more than anything. Peace of mind, a little music, little else.
- AL: And your preferred place and time to do it?
JCC: At home, anytime, No problem.
- AL: Other genres that you like?
JCC: Good literature, regardless of gender. I like to read in general.
- AL: What are you reading now? And writing?
JCC: At the moment I read The Marcus effect, from the Department Q series, from Jussi Adler-Olsen. I am preparing the first notes of the sixth installment of inspector Monfort.
- AL: How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?
JCC: Writing is an act of faith, and publishing in a good publisher is almost a miracle. Fortunately lReaders are getting better and better, and that's a good sign. We will see what remains after the times we are living.
- 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 novels?
JCC: I like to fantasize that what is happening will serve to let's be better people, more supportive and kind. But it is not entirely clear to me. That is my wish in any case.