Roberto C. Valverde · Galicia
— Roberto C. Valverde · Writer
Stories make us look
again.
There are things we only know how to say through a story. I write to get closer to them, without the rush of finding an answer.
«Even in silence there is a story.»Roberto C. Valverde
Writing to understand.
I am drawn to those small cracks through which what we are shows itself: a decision made too late, a memory that no longer matches reality, a truth that seemed simpler before we knew it.
I write because people are inexhaustible to me: there is always something left to say, something left to understand. And because there are conversations that can only begin on a page, in the silence of a reader who does not yet know what they will find.
Roberto C. Valverde
Notes in the margin.
Three notes on what leads me to write. Not answers, but ways of looking.
I · Sobre a memoria
O que lembramos
A memoria non conserva os días como foron, senón como precisamos que fosen. E ás veces, o que recordamos non é o que vivimos, senón o que necesitamos contar.
Read textII · Sobre os silencios
As palabras que faltan
Hai conversas que duran un minuto e outras que duran toda unha vida. O que non se di tamén fala, e ás veces di máis ca todo o que dixemos.
Read textIII · Sobre as decisións
Unha vida e os seus desvíos
Raras veces sabemos, no momento de elixir, que aquela decisión nos estaba cambiando. Só logo, mirando atrás, comprendemos o que xa non pode ser doutro xeito.
Read text«Perhaps a good story does not change our lives. But it can change the way we look at them.»
A way of understanding literature
On the other side of the page.
This is the space for anyone who wants to write to me. Readers, media, publishers. No rush, with attention to the word.
Shall we talk?
Literary correspondence
From time to time, a letter.
News, publications and reflections I share only with those who want to receive them. Nothing more, nothing that would not arrive in a letter.