It is the new work of the young writer Jorge Ribeiro de Castro, it is a crime novel about a castle overshadowed by a secret that the author did not uncover.
You written "by arcane paths I roam" when you were twenty-one years. And just after several years you decided to edit it. So I ask, did many changes?
Jorge Ribeiro de Castro: When I started writing the book did not know what was going to happen. Started only the first chapter, but then I thought as thought the world of Sir Conan Doyle, why not write a story in the form of police novel? The drama is passed in a castle with hundreds of years.
Tell me about the thread of these police lnovel? What were the first characters that come about?
JRC: The first was John, after Marius, the Earl and his daughter, Kirsten, Isabella working at the inn which later we know and the dutch who has gone through various surnames.
Which of the characters was a challenge in terms of construction?
JRC: The driver who works at the castle, is an employee. When I started to describing this character I thought it would be one thing, but in the end turned out to be another, I will not say what.
You picked a certain castle because it has a particular connotation?
JRC: I like castles, since child always felt a great fascination for this type of constructions, because of the secret passages and fancy stories that might have happened in these spaces perhaps love affairs, betrayals, fights and moreover they are a kind of strongholds. I live near the Pico fortress and see this architectural beauty every day, then like to know it better through documentaries and films, is fascinating. So Wolkenasnacht castle, well, is just in my imagination.
Writing was a difficult process throughout this year? There were times when you thought you had breaks and give up?
JRC: I've been writing the book constantly and finished it in 1998. I decided to improve it, because it was time to edit it in ebook and thought why not improve it substantially? That is it, come with an epilogue explaining the strange attitude of a certain character throughout the novel. But, I've been writing many other stories, thru the 90's, which will now go on Paper "poetic and ancient relics," will be released in February, has 17 stories and 12 poems, so I was not stopped by this book, or waiting to continue anything, just had other ideas that wanted to write. In June 2014 I edited "the procession of virtuous solemnities", which has eight stories. In all the time I've been to improve the writing, I wrote other things also lyrics to bands, collaborated with several magazines, I had this book in hibernation, because there were several ideas that I decided to move forward.
What are your favorite characters? Or one of you has a very special affection?
JRC: I cannot speak of either, because as you read the book is that you discover the character, but John has a lot to do with me.
It is the hopeless romantic?
JRC: Yes, he falls in love with someone who, in his view, has a way of being, an intellectuality that he cannot find in other women he knows in England.
