Ferrari is a subway cleaner and a writer edited twice by Alfaguara, the label under which he released his most recent novel called ‘Todos Nosotros’.
Enrique Ferrari, better known as Kike Ferrari, He is considered one of the most important names in Argentine literature, especially the detective novel. His “fame”, although he is not a supporter of this word, not only responds to the success of his novels, but to his life story, which has been marked by perseverance and distance from the public spotlight.
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Ferrari, 49, is a subway cleaner and writer from Buenos Aires edited twice by Alfaguara, label under which he released one of his latest books called All of us. The novel presents a group of young people who put together an unusual operation: traveling through time to avoid the death of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. For which they take as an option to eliminate Ramon Mercader, agent of Stalin’s mandate. In this way, the characters move to Coyoacán, Mexico in 1940, the place and year in which he was assassinated.
In an interview with the newspaper Third mentioned that although it is an idea raised in Return to the future and Terminator, his mission was to see what it could offer to history, to discover how to approach Trotsky’s death. “He came up with the idea of the time machine, which in this novel manufactures a computer scientist named Fat Felipe”, he mentioned.
The winner of the first mention in the House of the Americas AwardIn 2009, he previously published with smaller, independent publishers. However, reaching an editorial like Alfaguara has allowed him to dialogue with more readers, he said in an interview with the Chilean media. “It is clearly a step forward. It also implies the entry of another amount of twine (money), because we do not live on air “, expressed the Argentine.
The history of Ferrari has something particular, it divides its time between his cleaning job at the Pasteur-Amia station of the Buenos Aires subway and the writing. “It is the capitalist and bourgeois strangeness to think that workers have nothing to do with culture”, he stated by way of complaint in 2013, alluding to the fact that he was fed up with being called “The subway writer.”
Well, he says that his life was always like this, and that rather by his own will he has decided to stay on the margins of the academic world. “And for a long time I was away from the literary world, now I do workshops, but I am on the margins because everything that happens around the small world of literature does not interest me so much”, pick up Third.
He says that his job as a cleaner did not stop with the pandemic, he continued with his work routine in the subway with a lot of effort. “I did not take it very seriously, not because I did not believe that the pandemic existed, but as a way of preserving my own head”.
In an interview with The country, In 2017, he confessed that the happiest moments in his life – after those he lives with his family – are when he writes. “The best moment of my day is when I sit down to write, it is when I feel happiest. A valve like the one we would all have to have in order not to go crazy ”.
His novel That look like flies from afar received in 2012 the award for the best first work in the Black Week of Gijón, Spain, and opened the doors for his work to be published in France, Mexico and Italy, as well as Argentina.
So far it has six published novels, two short story books, essays and a dozen anthologies. He was a baker, taxi driver, electrician, salesman and illegal immigrant in the United States, where he went to try his luck and returned deported three years later.
Among his novels are Operation Bukowski (2004), What was not (2009) and That look like flies from afar (2019). (I)
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