Katya Adaui: “Maybe real vacations follow when someone is home”

“It is not the same thing to be a traveler than a tourist, as each time it costs more to discover the differences,” reflects Katya Adaui (Lima, 1977) during one of her six visits to Barcelona. Dubte how she sat before this displacement. “Surely she is just another tourist, face that jo vinc per feina.” Indeed, he is going to present Un nom per a la teva illa (Pàgines d'Escuma), the book of stories with which he will be a finalist in the Ribera del Duero short fiction prize and which comes after winning the National Literature Prize of Peru in 2023.

The statement that there is food between journalists is not futile. The book does not just talk about the world but rather invites the reader to become a traveler and explore mass tourism. “I thought that if you immerse yourself in these texts, you won't succeed,” the Peruvian author, established in Argentina, is convinced that each time she is more aware of how tourism affects cities. "It becomes a homogenous thing. There are many factors, but the believers and the hotels are even very much to blame. They are due to the things that produce the most terror in them."

“I just wanted to talk to my friends.”

If you are afraid that you will be around for a while, it will all start during a bus break. "I'm going to think that I'm going to see thousands of fish, but the sea was devastated. Face it, I'm going to continue until someone is going to keep me apart because a flood had to come that, although little, had a very high volume. Neither the sea was intact nor silence," she remembers decebutely. “Lavors may think that, perhaps, real vacations are those that come home.”

Are you against traveling? "No, of course not. But maybe I don't have to conèixer-ho tot. I just want to talk to them on me waiting for a friend." With that premise, a total of sets begin to be written, the pattern of which, according to the writer, "could symbolize the flight of an airplane. The first ones are relaxed, the central ones cross a zone of turbulence and the endings allow us to terrify in a calm way." Això yes, they all have a common landscape, that of friendship and love, apart from a simple question: How do we build every day the bridge that unites the islands that we are?

“The creuers and the hotels of everything even produce terror”

The protagonists are dedicated to inventing the borders of their various links and celebrating them, faced with the fact that, as Adaui advances, "they also bring, they anticipate and they confront. One way or another, they are always in transit, where they decide to travel cap to something new and ho fan with a surprise. It could be said that qualsevol Semblance to reality is a simple coincidence, but the truth is that it is not. Inspiration will arrive after various autobiographical episodes of the escort. All comments are susceptible to ending them. meves pages”.

Bé, “this is another of the primigènies premisses”, he admitted. "The rest is spontaneous and appears before me as the story unfolds. I don't even know the ending. The dialogues are the most important and I completely distrust the books that both women have, as they are the ones that allow us to test the personality and carry the weight of the plot."