Carlos Ruiz Zafón defends commercial art

In an interview conducted by Sergi Doria, Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón argues that commercial art isn't necessarily of inferior quality. "We must get over the rigid classifications of the last forty years. Readers are people who could as easily go to the cinema or watch television as they could read literature. It's an audience with varied tastes and who has its own criteria. There is also the reader who defines his identity with a specific cultural product, but that's just snobbery. These days, we can enjoy the television series 'The Sopranos,' a hardboiled detective novel and a comic book. Mixing brings vitality. In the same way that cinema was enriched with literature in its golden age, today it's the opposite which happens. Literary classics were popular novels in their time."

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