the doctor of law Gerardo Perez Sanchez publishes his seventh novel, transparent guiltwhich was presented on Monday, November 14 at the Real Casino de Tenerife, in an act conducted by journalist Saray Encinoso. This new book, published by the Verbum Narrativa publishing house, can now be purchased in bookstores, as well as on digital platforms. This is perhaps one of the most ambitious novels by the also lawyer and film critic because of the way he has written it, without dialogue, and in a single narrative text that has Clara Durán as the main protagonist.
the seed of transparent guilt It is found precisely in Pérez’s desire to vary his literary trajectory and “make a different narrative to move towards other types of novels.” In addition, she “wanted to reflect on guilt and to what extent the human being is aware of the responsibility for his actions.” However, the starting point of this novel is once again in the cinema, one of the great hobbies of the author: «At the beginning of the book there is a quote from the film lions for lambs, from a scene in which a teacher tells a student that one begins to be an adult before realizing that he really is, when he has already made some decisions that are going to mark him. That is the idea that I want to develop in this novel.
The author confesses that he would have liked to “make seven films, instead of seven novels”
This is how he began to shape this story that “intends to be entertaining, and for this reason it has a touch of espionage, legal proceedings, crimes committed… Although deep down it is the story of a woman from the moment of her birth until some events happen that lead her to be the cover of the main newscasts in the country ».
It is not the first time that Gerardo Pérez has entered the mind of a woman who stars in his novels. «I have read a lot but above all I have learned to narrate and describe characters through cinema», explains the writer who also confesses that «what I really would have liked to do seven movies, instead of seven novels, but since I do not have that capacity I have published these books ». Despite this, he indicates that, “because it lacks dialogue, this book would be perhaps the most difficult to adapt to the big screen.”
sentimental burden
While some of the earlier novels in the Gerardo Pérez bibliography have been heavily charged with sentiment, transparent guilt turns his career around. «Due to my profession as a lawyer I am in contact with many people who are in trouble and I have had the opportunity to see how each one perceives guiltin so many different ways”, says the writer who acknowledges that he has been nourished by all those experiences and situations that have happened before his eyes throughout his career as a lawyer.
He varies his literary career and makes “a different narrative to move towards other types of novels”
Gerardo Pérez finished writing this novel during confinement because, although it is not his main activity, “I like to tell stories so that people are entertained, whether they are read or seen is indifferent to me.” Thus, writing is a constant in his life, a routine that, although not daily, accompanies him throughout the weeks and months. And that’s why he already has some ideas for his next book, the eighth, although he has not yet begun to write. «In this case, what goes through my head has more to do with what I have been able to see in a movie, because I really like, when I see something in the cinema, to think about how I would have told it and from there put the character in a totally different situation”. He adds that he has already tried almost everything in the world of literature, and what interests him now is “to continue creating new characters and stories with interesting plots for the reader.”
While this new novel takes shape, Gerardo Pérez invites the public to immerse themselves in the pages of transparent guilta novel “that moves, with rhythm, and above all with a thought-provoking plot about guilt, about decision-making, something that may seem innocuous to someone or transcendental to another and that is totally different for everyone”, he concludes.
