Thursday, December 22, 2011

Lucia Etxebarria: truly an extraordinary author | Kathryn Hughes

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I understand the anger

Lucia Etxebarria to download illegally. But for most writers of books are a labor of love, not money

Lucia Etxebarria has every right to feel angry. The Spaniard, winner of the author has recently learned that his latest novel has been downloaded illegally so often that decimated sales of the hardcover. His previous books were best-sellers, while the content of Silence languishes at number 23 500 on the Amazon site in Spanish.

In protest, Etxebarria announced that now shut up. According to a message on Facebook continued to write for the foreseeable future. The game is, not worth it. It is useless to dwell on his prose for three years only to find not see the end of it. Etxebarria said he was offered a job - which, given the state of the Spanish economy, makes it a winner - and think it will

is horrible for a writer to see that your work has been hacked. It feels like a violation. At least I assume it should. For, as the vast majority of authors, I am not able to Etxebarria people so desperate for reading my work as a crime done with it. In Spain, says Etxebarria, a free market of drool running wild.
  • What I find strange in the position of Etxebarria, however, is not anger as much as his decision to stop writing and get a job. It does not specify what type of work, but I'm willing to bet that not one of these: a night watchman, pilot, aromatherapy. Much more likely is that it will take a teaching job to write more, most likely at the university. This is what the authors tend to do when we're not entirely sure they will be able to earn enough money to support themselves and their families. And given how the economics of publishing are - £ 10,000 is the new £ 50 000 in terms of progress - which means that most of us, except, perhaps, by Ken Follett
Imagine
Etxebarria is sure to teach creative writing. What you find on your first day is for students in their fourth seminar have little interest in the amount of money that is likely to do their work published. I teach at one of these courses at UEA, and I can say that this is not to write, start writing, keep writing, because I think it would be a convenient way of life. I've never had a student ask questions about the finances of the publication - the amount you could get from a book, like a piece of velvet or a cache of jewels. No wonder sales, either. They write - as published authors to write, and make work more enjoyable allowing them to continue writing - is an innate desire, an itch that will not go away

There is nothing noble about this distance. The authors do not write to communicate the great truths, but to make their mark soon. They want to be heard and noticed, and sometimes loved. They do this by a deep narcissism because, literally, nothing and no one else matters. A check is good, but not so.

is for these reasons that the vow of silence Etxebarria ring hollow. Among the comments were scathing jabs of the amount of money you earned in the past literary awards, including the Premio Planeta Facebook, is now worth over £ 500,000. I do not envy your Etxebarria chance for a while, but I am confused. He has honestly going to write to make money? Are you going to leave now that the financial returns are not what they like? If so, Lucia Etxebarria is very different from any potential author or authors I've met before.


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