There are those who seek to separate the work of artists when the life of many authors is one of their great creations. There are those who join them in making summary moral judgments. We live in a world so used to questioning everything as if it were a CIS survey, with questions whose only possible answer is yes/no/nsnc, that we forget that sometimes there is no complete answer, because the questions fail. But sometimes there are those who know how to look from another place.
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In Terenci, the endless fabulation created by Álvaro Augusto and directed by Marta Lallana, they do. The documentary series produced by Filmin addresses the figure of Terenci Moix from many perspectives, some of which are not very flattering for the protagonist. Friends, family, exes and some close enemies remember it. Hearing Colita (her documentary Cola, Colita, Colassa is a gem), Núria Espert, Luis Antonio de Villena and Vicente Molina Foix speak is, unfortunately, as valuable as it is rare on today’s television. There are also glaring absences, like that of Maruja Torres. Fabulations, however numerous they may be, are always incomplete. And it causes shame to think about certain intimacies.
Listening to Colita, Núria Espert, Luis Antonio de Villena and Vicente Molina Foix is as valuable as it is unusual on television today.”
Terenci is valued in the documentary not for his virtues or despite his weaknesses, but in part thanks to the latter. Anyone who sees that he is ready to judge his literary quality, as some young people do in a fragment of “Y tú de qué vas?” that the documentary takes up, does not know what to look like. Just like someone who does it with their life. “Although the boy Ramón always had an abhorrence of death, the writer who replaced him learned that if he sought to be reborn he would have to die many times,” he wrote in “The Weight of Straw.” I would have liked to see him here, in this other life. Let’s see what he thought.
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