From recounting a tense family lunch, with a threatening patriarch, to an impromptu torture session in the middle of the field, the author’s pen unfolds through the four chapters with ease, jumping in time and changing narrator as the situation warrants, without making the reading cumbersome. On the contrary: one of the high points is the naturalness with which the different stories flow, like a kind of mamushka, in which each story branches out in different directions.
Although it came out last year, the book was presented this Thursday, at the Vuelvo al Sur bookstore in Parque Patricios (the pandemic had forced it to be postponed). There the author spoke with the journalist and writer Horacio Convertini, who served as master of ceremonies. Convertini defined some of the main characteristics of the police genre, saying that Basile’s novel presents an “ordinary character” who faces an extraordinary situation.
Immediately afterwards, he drew a parallel with the story “The killers”, by Ernest Hemingway and explained that “A dead man in the trunk” is a work of “strong and adorable characters” and gave it details of the road movies, similar to films of Tarantino and the Coen brothers.
In turn, Basile reviewed his beginnings in literature, specifically in the workshop of the poet Horacio Salas, and listed some of the authors who influenced his writing: Osvaldo Soriano, Leopoldo Marechal, Roberto Arlt, Mario Vargas Llosa and Jorge Asís – whom he asked for advice during the production of the book -, among others. He also referred to the tools that journalism, a profession he exercises in everyday life, gives him when writing and how reading “The Maltese Falcon”, a classic by author Dashiell Hammett, immersed him in the police genre.
Then, he declared that he is recognized more as a “short story writer” than novels and remarked that “confusion” is one of the leimotifs of his brand new work. Before “A dead man in the trunk”, the author published the novel “Por la banquina”, in 2012, and “Office work”, a storybook that was released in 2014.
In the future, the author flirts with new projects, such as a new storybook and addressing in a literary way the trip he made to the Falkland Islands with war veterans in 2020.
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