Livro Asi Empieza Lo Malo (Thus Bad Begins)

Una novela sobre el deseo, el rencor y la arbitrariedad del perdon. Libro del ano 2014 segun Babelia. Asi empieza lo malo cuenta la historia intima de un matrimonio de muchos anos, narrada por su joven testigo cuando este es ya un hombre plenamente adulto.

Juan de Vere encuentra su primer empleo como secretario personal de Eduardo Muriel, un antano exitoso director de cine, en el Madrid de 1980. Su trabajo le permite entrar en la privacidad de la casa familiar y ser espectador de la misteriosa desdicha conyugal entre Muriel y su esposa Beatriz Noguera.

Muriel le encarga que investigue y sonsaque a un amigo suyo de media vida, el Doctor Jorge Van Vechten, de cuyo indecente comportamiento en el pasado le han llegado rumores.

Pero Juan no se limitara a eso y tomara dudosas iniciativas, porque, como el mismo reconoce desde su edad madura, -los jovenes tienen el alma y la conciencia aplazadas-. Asi descubrira que no hay justicia desinteresada, sino que esta siempre contaminada por el rencor personal y por los propios deseos, y que todo perdon o castigo son arbitrarios.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The story didn t happen that long ago, yet today it would be impossible. I m talking about what happened to them, to Eduardo Muriel and his wife, Beatriz Noguera, when they were young, and not about what happened to me with them, when I was the youth and their marriage a long and unbreakable misfortune.

This is the beginning of Thus Bad Begins, a story of intimate life, like those that aren t usually told or are only told in whispers, recalled by one who witnessed it in his youth, Juan de Vere, while working for a former successful movie director.

That job allowed him to see the strange, unbalanced state of Muriel s marriage, as well as its mysterious past. In the excited Madrid of 1980, Muriel asks young De Vere to investigate an old friend of his, Dr.

Jorge Van Vechten, whose indecent behavior in the past has caused rumors. But Juan doesn t stop there, and takes questionable initiatives. Thus he discovers that there is no selfless justice; it is always contaminated by personal resentment, and that all forgiveness or punishment is abritrary.

A novel about desire, resentment, and the arbitrary nature of forgiveness."