Course in black genre

Since Stieg Larsson published the Millennium saga, the adepts to the genre have not stopped growing. Readers, publishers, booksellers: all in search of the same: the black novel. But what is a black novel nowadays? What are the keys to writing dark stories? Is it possible to dispense with the police investigation in a text called "negro"?

We believe - and we have proof of this - that there is a new way of telling reality. We believe that the rise for "the black" does not directly refer to the classic histories of detective research. The Greek tragedy - Oedipus Rey, for example - is usually a narrative plagued by darkness, without the strict necessity of resorting to research. That is, evil occurs - evil exists - prior to the discovery of the killer. And it is this aspect that interests us, because it breaks with the traditional canons. Everything that has to do with evil, attracts us. As readers but also as writers.

In this course we want to give you the tools and concepts so you can write black texts exempt from the figure of the investigator or detective. We are going to tell stories where evil - the dark variable of the human being - is the axis of the story, without giving much importance to the after. That will be the objective of the workshop: to learn and exercise the narration that is born from the subsoil of things, where everything that pursues us lives, even if no one can see it in time.

Reality, what happens there every day-even in advanced societies-gives us the most important of the elements demanded by modern literature: verisimilitude. Everything is possible - everything is believable - after Auschwitz.