“Swans not only know how to love

Journalist: Why did you decide to write your second dystopian novel?

Pablo Kornblum: After my first dystopian novel, ‘the balancer who came from space’, I wanted to combine my knowledge of economy, politics and international relations, with everything I have absorbed through readings on dystopia scenarios. This involved capturing social dynamics in a different way; That the moral dilemmas and the passions that exist in each human being, reach the reader through a science fiction story that traps them, on the one hand, but also makes them reflect on the complex world in which we live.

Q.: What is the novel about?

PK: Talk about the passion of a group of young people who want the best for their lives, with family stories where socio-economic miseries are combined with the concealment and lies generated by technology. This scenario is rammed in a world war between the most ruthless capitalism and a masked late communism; from which a monument derives that reflects a photo of the story. And there, in transcending memory, it is where a process of holistic understanding is generated, with love as a lighthouse that feeds the hope of the protagonists.

Q.: What topics will the reader find in its pages?

PK: A nationalism that advocates cloning to kill, a fallacious international policy that seeks to temper social tensions, the use of science and the dissemination of information to achieve ‘discussed’ committed, and the permanent promotion of marginal incentives to generate a fantasy of progress within the ‘venerated’ systemic ‘way of life’ way of life, among others. All this framed in confusing ideological imperatives, which lead to a premeditated final destruction and death. On the contrary, ethics, desire and love are also perceived; Variables that become fundamental to ‘breathe’, take distance from complexity and miseries, which allow us to yearn for a prosperous collective future.

Q.: Beyond the fact that the reader will visualize with a dystopian future, can any similarity be done with today?

PK: In the history of mankind, the dilemmas are cyclical, they ‘aggiorn’ to each spatial and temporal situation, but never disappear: the bid of interest, the ambition for power and wealth, the permanent struggle – prolonged and complex – for freedom and justice, the understanding of the positioning that each has in an eminently class class, and so we could continue. While there may be a differential in terms of technological, the essence, the one that combines what we are passionate about, desires, which motivates us to pursue our dreams, does not change.

Q.: Finally, why would I recommend reading the reading of ‘Swans not only know how to love?

PK: It is a very dynamic novel, which touches a diversity of social problems and makes us reflect on the dilemmas we have as individuals and as a society. But it also challenges us to think about what kind of world we want to live, what are our priorities, and to what kind of injustices we are willing to tolerate. In a ‘liquid world’, where everything seems to be negotiable, I think it is an internal debate that we must give.