Maruja Torres was the protagonist of Lo de Évole in its installment broadcast on Sunday, February 26. The journalist recalled in the La Sexta space what her harsh childhood was like. She said that she was always clear that she was not going to get married after what she had experienced when she was a child: “One thing that I took from the family experience is that I was not going to sign a paper or crazy. I was not going to tie myself up nobody”.
The writer explained about her mother: “She tied herself up so much that when my father, who hit her, that is, was an abuser, went away and left us, I said ‘mom, what an illusion’ and she dressed in black. That is the Spain I come from. I am the way I am because I have done the opposite of everything. My mother became a victim, an official victim in the family, ‘poor Lola, who has been abandoned'”.
“My father would come looking for me. When I was in the street, I would shout and they would go out onto the balcony and the women would come down,” he said. “He never hit me, but then my mother, who wasn’t stupid either, as she knew he wasn’t going to hit me, she would grab me and put me in the middle. My memory of my father is very vociferous, but then I understood that my poor mother defended herself as best she could,” he said.
Torres shared after recalling these episodes: “I learned one thing, which I tell in Un calor tan cercano, which is to unfold. When something is happening, you have to survive and you go elsewhere. Me, when I saw the shadow of my father in a shop window, I became someone else who was leaving. And that’s what literature really is, isn’t it? That is, being someone else. And when I’ve gone to wars and things like that, I’ve been able to do them because that self of mine has given me I was allowed to be in dangerous places as if I weren’t there. Shaking or crying would come later, but at that moment you have to be a professional. My father turned me into a professional.”
Jordi Évole concluded after listening to his experiences: “It’s a horrible childhood.” The guest added: “Yes, but look, I carry her on my back without a backpack. She wouldn’t live it again or crazy, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but she wouldn’t be me.”
The presenter of Lo de Évole said that he had read that Maruja Torres was called “ugly” by her own family when she was little: “There was a point of cruelty.” She indicated: “The family was part of a way of life that you have not known.”
The writer explained: “They valued you for how they could place you. If you came out pretty, it was the luck of the family and, possibly, your misfortune. If you came out like me, it was normal, but for the canons of the time it was not a beauty, far from it… She had teeth and, in addition, she answered badly. What could I be if not intelligent? I tried to find a way”.
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