Luisgé Martín defends that ‘hate’ “does not give voice” to Breton, but “face her contradictions”

The author of the book that collects the confessions of José Bretón about the murder of their two children, Luisgé Martín defends that his work does not give him “voice”, but “he takes it away” and “faces him with his contradictions.”

“‘Hate’ does not give a voice to José Breton: he removes it, denies his explanation of the facts, confronts him with his contradictions. ‘Hate’, in my humble opinion, serves to show the labyrinths of the infamy and the village of a murderer. Nothing else. And nothing less, “says the writer in a letter sent this Friday.

In this sense, he defends that the book ‘hate’ is written “with the greatest respect for victims.” While, he acknowledges that “can cause pain to reopening wounds“, But” no more “than other books that have been published on the facts. In this sense, it refers to the audiovisual series ‘Breton, the devil’s gaze’, issued in 2023.

He also says that he began writing ‘hate’ “because he was unable to understand that someone could kill their own children.” “Violence is around us often within us, we live in an increasingly convulsed and choleric world, but There is a certain type of violence that cannot be explained in any way. Vicaria violence is probably the most incomprehensible of all“He argues.

Along the same lines, he states that, as “the majority” of the writers he knows, he writes “to understand the world”, as well as “to give order to what is only chaos, to hold” to some certainty in the midst of the Movedizas sands “and to” look for answers “to their” own demons and the demons of society “in which he lives.”In this way I arrived in the crime of José Bretón, which contains all the paradigms of evil with capital letters and that became, in 2011, a symbol of sexist violence in Spain“He explains.

It also refers to authors who, through his works, report other murders that have taken place throughout history. “In 1965, Truman Capote posted in cold blood, the chronicle of an abominable crime whose authors -of one of whom had fallen in love- were in the death corridor. In 2000, Emmanuel Carrère published the adversary, a portrait of Jean-Claude Romand, who had murdered his two children, his wife and his own parents. Carrère visited in jail and held correspondence for years with Romand, who in 2019 left prison after serving his sentence. And in 2020, Nicola Lioioia, with the same narrative tools, crumbled an atrocious crime that shook Italy in 2016. There are three masterpieces. Before and then there have been hundreds or thousands of similar books“, indica.

Martín assures that he does not compare literally with these authors, but compares his purpose with his own. “Inquire about hate, about the brutality of human nature, about cruelty, about social structures that support that inacabable violence. That is, to a large extent, the history of literature“He says.

Finally, the journalist says that “he deserves a reflection” that ‘hate’, “that few people have yet read, arouse the public hatred that he has aroused among those who have not read it.” “It is sadly consistent with the type of society towards which we walk, in which preventive resentment replaces critical thinking,” he concludes.