A table by a window, a good cup of coffee and the sound of people coming and going. Milena Busquets (Barcelona, 1972) doesn't need much more for her mind and her fingers to activate and start typing. “Whether something good comes out is something else. Not even the smartest person in the world is guaranteed to write a book and have it be good. But it does help when the muses catch you working,” she tells La Vanguardia from the same bar where she goes every day after walking her dog Kate –by Kate Moss–. There she writes and reflects on everything that happens to her.
“Putting it down on paper or in a Word document helps.” That is why this past 2023, “a disastrous year in which I suffered a lot for love,” he decided to turn to lyrics to make everything more bearable, “although I still had a bad time, but I can't do it any other way.” ”. Today Ensayo General (Anagrama/Amsterdam Llibres, in Catalan) arrives in bookstores, the result of those months that were difficult but also that “allowed me to revisit the past and see some things with much more perspective.”
At 52 years old, Busquets acknowledges having written his memoirs, "or rather my will, which arrives sooner than expected." He is young to do it and hopes “not to have to do it anymore or, if I do, to be happier.” For now, he is only clear that his next book will be “a jam,” as are the entries in his new blog. “Today I talked about how men style their hair. I had a good time, I admit it.”
Your book is also reminiscent of blog entries. “I started writing in a tantrum. I did not collaborate with any media and I started writing columns, which I did not know if they would end up being published and which have now ended up as a literary artifact.” Her writings, although brief, allow us to see an open Milena Busquets on the channel, where she expresses her opinion on topics as varied as motherhood, love or her mother, the editor of Lumen Esther Tusquets.
“On the tenth anniversary of his death, I began to wonder if he had loved me. It's not something I hadn't already thought about with her in life, but the question came back to me. Our relationship was passionate. After my father, he didn't have any more partners and I think that, in some way, I made up for that presence. I had an oedipal relationship. And I still have it today. Despite being buried in Cadaqués, my mother is still alive and well. Sometimes, she consoles me and tries to save me, and other times she whores me, like she did in the last years of her life,” says the author, who denies that duels exist. “They are an invention. People die but continue to accompany us. I don't believe in breakups either. I haven't overcome any. Sadness remains in the heart. This turning the page is the biggest scam that exists.”
The writer defines herself as a passionate person. “My great fear is that they don't love me. I guess that's why I talk so much about love. Unless you are very lucky, the conventional format of marriage does not last forever. Furthermore, after the age of forty, people leave more and more space for love, as if we couldn't fall in love later. At sixty, my mother fell madly in love with her bridge teacher. It was a great love story. And, although they are brief, I believe in them. “In love, and also in books, is where I test my freedom.”
