Javier Cercas' "Vomiting" Before Literature that "Dulcifies Reality"

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The Spanish writer Javier Cercas “wants to vomit” when they talk about literature that uses the “ornament” to tell a story and that, moreover, does not “break” with the pre-established and settles without being made from the guts, but, above all, that does not reveal the truth.“Bad literature is the one that sweetens things, the one that does not reveal, because the adornment always hides something (...) Literature is what happens in the street,…