Jorge Alacid portrays the “moral backbone” of transition in his first novel

With ‘Los seres queridos’ he explores the reasons for suicide “which can be murder or murder in another way”

Journalism and literature are the two passions of Jorge Alacid (Logroño, 1962). The former, to which he has devoted his entire professional life, is also the driving force behind his first novel, ‘Los seres queridos’ (Los aciertos & Pepitas). A “highly literary” plot centered around some disturbing suicides that explores the director of a provincial newspaper with both commerce and nose, Viberti, during the transition.

“I wanted to represent the moral backbone of Spain at that time, of a country in black and white, a border area with its own story, so it was good for me not to be too specific,” he justifies his decision to place the novel set in a Spanish town that is never mentioned.

After a life on the editorial staff of Vocento newspapers such as El Correo, La Rioja or Las Provincias, Alacid debuts in storytelling with this exciting story “which is more gray than black, like the inhospitable and precarious Spain it depicts, and that it deliberately avoids.” be red.” It relies, yes, on the police canon to move on and flee from the blood and offal so abundant in the police genre. can be explained,” emphasizes the author.

“There have been a lot of red crime novels since Hammett, and I didn’t want to wallow in morbidity,” he says. And he takes care to avoid the gruesome when he tackles a tricky subject like suicide. “I realized that suicide can be a strange crime, with vague contours and multiple moral aspects. That it could be a murder in a different way or a murder in a different way, although we will never know the ultimate reason for the suicide or whether we violated their privacy in investigating it,” he says.

Alacid believes journalists and novelists are a lot like “hunters,” and in this feature debut, he uses his bloodhound Viberti to investigate these disturbing suicides. “It has a liquid morality, sometimes gaseous, but which turns out to be very powerful. Beneath his disbelieving facade is a high sentimentality that he hides and finds its form in journalism,” Alacid signs his protagonist. “There’s the journalistic fisherman who throws the rod to see who bites, and the one who goes hunting for his prey, which is what I’ve tried as a novelist and journalist before,” he says.

Alacid breaks a spear for journalism done “excellently” far from the centers of power, in capitals such as those in which his novel is set “in which apparently nothing ever happens and that could be Logroño, Soria or León.” “Necessity sharpens humor, and if you have nothing and seek gold and diamonds where there is only routine, you will eventually find them and improve your professional practice,” Alacid claims that journalism.

He is devoted to his job to the core: “If I were born a thousand times, I would be a journalist a thousand times,” he boasts. «Journalism is the story of life and if you want to know what our time was like in the future, you have to go to the newspaper archives. We journalists help to interpret the world and I hope that we also give it a moral basis. The most important thing about journalism is to inform, but also to contribute to a deeper democratic quality,” he concludes.

Source: La Verdad

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