– I show certain pathological situations drawn or sketched, I would say with a thick line, because in fact the novel is not a one-to-one reflection of our reality – emphasizes Ćwirlej. See a fragment of Marta Korycka’s conversation with the author of crime novels, the creator of a new literary genre – the neo-military novel, which this time mainly tells about the beginning of a new novel cycle, started with “Tęczowa dolina”.
Ryszard Ćwirlej: A criminal action introduces us to reality and becomes a pretext to diagnose it
– This is not a crime story of flesh and blood, where the most important thing is the corpse, the most important thing is the blood, the most important thing is the murder. This is about something completely different – a criminal action introduces us to reality and becomes an excuse to diagnose it. To look, so that every person reading can look back, look around and say: Dutchman! What country do we live in, what reality do we live in? Are we really that gullible? he says about his latest book. The writer also adds:
Reading this book, we see that we trust miracle workers, that we trust people who try to deceive us, who try at all costs to get our hard-earned money out of our wallets by offering us the illusion of happiness. Offering us faith that we can be healthier, wiser, stronger, that we can put things in order with ourselves in this mess of ours that is somewhere inside us.
In the conversation, which will appear in its entirety on Gazeta.pl on May 5, and which will also be available as a Publio podcast “Read well, listen well”, we also talked about breaking stereotypes in crime fiction, the Church and politics, or how the author you record an audiobook with your own novel.
About the book “Rainbow Valley” by Ryszard Ćwirlej
In one of the Warsaw housing estates, a watchman finds the body of a tenant shot dead in his own apartment. During the investigation, it turns out that just before the murder, several people saw a homeless man hanging around the tenement house.
Around the same time, a retired police officer learns that he is his aunt’s sole heir. And yet they have been arguing for years … He suspects that something is wrong with the inheritance, decides to explain it and sets off to the seaside town of Chłopy.
A reporter specializing in investigative journalism learns that a healer in Ustronie Morskie gives people a medicine that almost instantly puts even the seriously ill on their feet. The journalist suspects it’s a scam and intends to look into the matter. Meanwhile, the witch doctor mysteriously disappears…
Source: Gazeta
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