"Literature is often this space where we resist forgetting", a conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Los nombres de Feliza tells the story of Colombian sculptress Feliza Bursztyn, who died suddenly on 8 January 1892 in Paris, in a restaurant where she had dinner with friends, including Gabriel García Márquez. The book seeks to understand why she "dead of sadness" on this cold Parisian night. At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes how he tries to reconstruct, relive the life of his main character, saying that he "imagined, in shor…