María Fasce: "Pain is a very selfish feeling"

With the evolution of a learning novel in which art and desire are doors for repair, "Elena's lives" (Edhasa), the latest novel by writer and editor María Fasce, addresses the days of an illustrator who After losing her daughter, she desperately searches to avoid madness and regain vitality and a reason to live.

Fasce, also editorial director of Lúmen, Alfaguara and Reservoir Books in Spain, spoke with Télam about a novel in which she was interested in "entertaining and moving" and investigating "what are the things that can bring us back to life after a great pain", she maintained that she believes that Latin American literature is experiencing a kind of second boom driven by the work of different authors and recounted how she exercises her double role as writer-editor.