When Falcones had to answer, he did so in the first person, defining himself. Eventually, any well-known author is asked about this kind of thing. A discussion between three well differentiated camps: those detractors of the writers with formula, the group in favor of these and the 'in-between'. Is it bad to be a formula writer? This is a debate without a consensus or a probable end. The Spanish television network produced an eight-episode series that swept the world. In 2018 it made the leap to the audiovisual world by the hand of Antena 3. As of 2007, it began to be translated into other languages, currently reaching a total of 15. You can buy the book here: The cathedral of the sea

In just two months, more than 500.000 copies were dispatched, both in Spanish and Catalan. To the surprise of many, the (then) unknown writer became number one in sales in Spain. In 2006 - not without difficulties for its release - Ildefonso Falcones' first film hit the bookstores. Shortly before the beginning of the new millennium, with almost 20 years practicing law, he was finally ready to follow his true vocation. From a very young age he wanted to be a writer, but the vicissitudes of life had prevented it. Together with his brother and another partner, he founded an office in Barcelona that provided him with financial stability.īut the true victory sought by Falcones was yet to come. The sacrifice was worth it: he graduated as a lawyer and had a very successful legal career. However, soon after he found work in a bingo hall. The family tragedy forced him to seek employment in order to pay for his university studies. However, the sudden death of his father forced him to abandon sports practice. This, when he got first place in the junior national equestrian championship in Salto. Falcones, the protagonistīorn in Barcelona (1959), Falcones' “heroic” journey begins at the age of 17. It is also Falcones' favorite storytelling method. It is also a common narrative scheme in literature, film, and the performing arts. A valid postulate, to some extent, to be taken as a more elaborate 'version' of Aristotle's premise in his Poetics. A formula described by film script specialist Robert McKee in his book The script (1997)īroadly speaking, this is the typical path traveled by all the protagonists in a film. It is a narrative structure proposed by the American mythologist Joseph Campbell in his book The hero with a thousand faces (1949).

The life of Ildefonso Falcones seems to comply with the theory of 'The Hero's Journey'. Ildefonso Falcones and 'The Hero's Journey'

8 The parallel plot (or the 'real' story).

1 Ildefonso Falcones and 'The Hero's Journey'.

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