23/01/2014 Meet the Author


23/01/2014

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for United the pain is plain to see. It's time now for me the author.

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Marc Pastor is a Barcelona police detective and a novelist. He's

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written four books, and one of them has just been published in Britain

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under the title Barcelona Shadows, translated from the Catalan. It is a

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wonderfully black story, a combination of crime thriller and

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Gothic horror. It tells the tale of a notorious Barcelona serial killer

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of a century ago, a woman. Marc Pastor, this is a very black

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tale indeed will stop Phil is in briefly on the plot and to your

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central character is. It is pretty dark. It is based on the life of the

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woman. She was a madam or stop she was a kidnapper of children. She

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kidnapped children and sold them to rich people. Sometimes she killed

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those children and made arrangements and potions of the flesh and blood.

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It was a real case, she really existed. You have a notebook of

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cuttings and notes which you compiled when you were researching

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that. Yes, this is one of the oldest newspapers in Catalonia. It had a

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lot of information about the case. And from another magazine we have

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the pictures. It is really wonderful because you can see those years in

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those pictures. You can see the husband, the victims. The last two

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victims were found in her apartment. You can see the fake wall in the

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kitchen where she hid the bodies of her victims. Where she left the dead

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bodies at the moment she was arrested. For people chasing the car

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when she was arrested. It is like recovering a piece of dead

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Barcelona. You are yourself a police officer, a crime scene officer. How

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does that help you in constructing a story like this? I would like to say

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it doesn't influence me. Of course, my job really influences sometimes

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in the words of a character. The way of talking, or the glances of the

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murderer or what ever. In that case, I couldn't get inside the mind

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of her. I couldn't imagine how a female serial killer could behave as

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she did. We had a case in 2006 where a female serial killer was trying to

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kill a woman in Barcelona. I investigated the case. The day we

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found her and arrested her, I could look her in the eyes. You know the

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silence of the lime - lands where Hannibal Lecter stands there. That

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was the same. A sense of pride, so cold, like an iceberg. I thought,

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wow! 100 years after the story of Enriqueta Martii, we have another

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serial killer in Barcelona who acts more or less the same. What does

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that say about Barcelona? It's a character. I wanted to have

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Enriqueta Marti in Barcelona in a parallel way. Enriqueta Marti by

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night is splendiferous, shiny, she moved among the rich people in the

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casinos and mansions. She is like a duchess. And by day she is like a

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beggar. She wears a black cape, she kidnaps children and she needs their

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flesh and drinks their blood. It is kind of schizophrenic. And Barcelona

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at that time was the same. By the night, Barcelona wanted to be one of

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the most modern cities in Europe, with the most huge casino in Europe,

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with a roller-coaster in the casino, in 1911. It had a lot of

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people coming from all over Europe. We had dowdy's buildings, modernism,

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we wanted to be the shiniest city in Europe. But by the day a lot of

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people were dying on the streets. A lot of disease. You write in

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Catalan, you are Catalan. You couldn't reach a much bigger

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audience if you wrote in Spanish. I don't need to because it is

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translated in Spanish. It's a tradition to write in Catalan

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because there is not so much tradition of literature in Catalan.

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There's not so much sci-fi or horror. There's a lot of crime

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fiction but not this kind of freaky genre. I want to fill the blank. I

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want to be there. I want that my language has a big tradition of

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sci-fi and horror and all that stuff. If I have to begin, I will do

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it. What do you call this book, what kind of book is this? A sort of

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Gothic, horror, crime thriller. What Tsonga does it belong to? The first

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time I thought about the book it was a kind of Western, horror, Gothic,

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crime fiction book. The main character, the inspector, behaved

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like a cowboy, with the weight of the gun, he walks, like, give me a

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shot of whiskey, man. But it is sometimes horror, sometimes crime

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fiction, sometimes Western.

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