The French writer and filmmaker Philippe Claudel Ve “paradoxical” that currently with a simple mobile phone can be accessed all “knowledge of humanity” and that, in turn, “human stupidity has reached like never ever levels such stratospheric.” of the presentation of the Spanish translation of his novel The Twilight (Salamandra). To his judgment, currently “any cretin can show his nonsense”, in front of past times in which he was spotted his words in the bar of a coffee against four or five parishioners. “The true fight today is against nonsense, against stupidity, clearly propagated by social networks, by television programs and politicians First line, “said the author of books such as Gray Souls and the Brodeck. Claudel is convinced that literature is basic to” understand the great mystery of humanity “and in the twilight he addresses issues such as ambition, religion, excessive power, the role of women or truth.It is a story with a police novel structure and with a village in which he influenced his The nine years that it took to assemble it, between 2013 and 2022. “The writer does not live on Mars, but in the real world, just like his readers and, therefore, he is a person who receives the impact of all problems, anguish and all the beauty that passes in the world, so that all these elements feed his novel,” he added that some of his novels are like “parables” that he offers to the reader so that he can ” everyday universe and, at the same time, that you meet current and contemporary issues such as communitarianism or opposition between religious communities, which, unfortunately, we have the opportunity to experience every day, just like the exercise of excessive power and ambition Putin
