The writer Álvaro Pombo, winner of the 2024 Cervantes Prize, has assured that Cervantes was “brave and a loser” because “he did not win any prize” and they plagiarized the second part of Don Quixotedespite “her talent and her grace.”
“He didn’t have any awards. The funny thing is that Cervantes didn’t have any awards. They plagiarized the second part of Don Quixote. He was in jail. Cervantes was a brilliant idiot. A poor thing. He just had the talent and the grace.”he stated in a press conference at the RAE headquarters, after obtaining this recognition this Tuesday.
Precisely, the writer has recognized that He is “happy” to receive the Cervantes Prize, a “beautiful” award, and has praised the Spanish language for being a “diverse, solemn and at the same time comical and fast” language. “The Spanish language is a language of many homelands, not just Castilian. It is the gift of languages”, he indicated.
Pombo has referred to irony, a resource highlighted in the jury’s ruling, and which he has warned can be “deadly” for the ironic. “The Cervantes irony is not believing it. It is not a primary feeling, it is secondary,” he stated before adding that writing is “complicated” because “novels take a long time” and because you have to read “many things.” “You are never satisfied,” he stressed. .
“Irony can be deadly for the ironicbecause it also means not taking anything seriously. That’s deadly. That’s why it’s a double-edged sword. The phrase of not believing it is very important because what comes out is a reflective product,” he commented.
The jury’s ruling this Tuesday highlighted the 85-year-old Spanish writer’s “extraordinary creative personality, his unique lyricism and his original narration,” in addition to his “very notable level as a poet and essayist, combined with being one of the great Spanish novelists.”
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