The adventation of the 39 sailors to whom Cristóbal Columbus had to leave in his Spanish after his first expedition to America focuses the plot of “The loss of paradise”, the historical and adventure trilogy of the Spanish José Luis Muñoz, who hopes to watch its premiere as a television series throughout this year.
In an interview with Efe, the author explains that, with this work, he seeks that readers empathize with men who left for unknown territories more than five hundred years ago.
“Columbus’s journey was one of the most extraordinary adventures in the history of mankind because at that time there were no maps,” Muñoz recalls.
“Columbus ventured a lot,” although he had some idea about the way to reach the mainland, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, he added.
While other similar historical episodes such as the “western conquest” in the United States were treated in cinema and literature on numerous occasions, Muñoz considers that everything related to the discovery and subsequent colonization of America “has exploited very little.”
Precisely that lack of fictions about the adventures of the first explorers in America motivated the author to write the three novels that make up “the loss of paradise.”
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Historical fiction with mystery background
The story focuses on what happened with the 39 sailors that Christopher Columbus had to leave in his Spanish (now Santo Domingo) after one of his three vessels embark on the island, preventing him from returning to Spain with all the crew that accompanied him on the first trip.
These “not well -known” facts, according to Muñoz, are narrated from the annotations in the newspapers of Columbus and the author’s imagination “because there are no documents of what happened to those 39 sailors”, since when the navigator returned on his second trip he did not find survivors.
Muñoz worried that all the characters that appear in the story were the true crew members of the expedition, articulating the plot around Martín de Urtubia, the scribe of the trip, and Juan de la Plaza, with contrary personalities but united by a “kind of friendship”.
In addition to the story about what men who accompanied Columbus lived in their “extraordinary error”, the trilogy tells the encounter between the expedition and indigenous culture, “apart from what Europe points understood by civilization.”
“Martín de Urtubia is fascinated by what he discovers, by the culture of those indigenous peoples and an extraordinary and lush landscape,” he details about the character that begins with the native population and ends up assimilating it.
A story of the sailors of Cristobal Colón taken to television
The adventure with historical background narrated by Muñoz in his books was adapted in the television series, “Los 39”, whose rights acquired Spanish public television.
“There are six episodes that are already made, the only thing that is missing is that Spanish Television program it,” says the author.
A series that has Spanish, Colombian and Mexican actors, “very well set and quite spectacular,” according to Muñoz, excited to bring a book to the screen: “It is a dream for any writer.”
With EFE information
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