“My character from the subway writer no longer has to do with me. At the time it served me, although I did not look for it: it simply occurred. ” Kike Ferrari (52), one of the most prominent Argentine police genre writers, toured a long way since it transpired media because he worked in line B. Someone came up with playing with darkness, subsoil, writing, black narrative. A mixture that sold. And now, in 2025, he finds him publishing his fifteenth book: The novel If you are reading this (Economic Culture Fund).
First were the small publishers and the titles that circulated in mouth to mouth, such as Operation Bukowski o What was not. Then the awards arrived, here, in Spain, in France. He kicked the board with the novel That looks like flieswhich opened the doors of large publishers. But the great jump is the one that gives with his new book, a story that covers from the beginning of the last century to the present day.
His admired Jorge Luis Borges is one of the protagonists. From an attempt at the author of the author of The Aleph And the mythical revolver he was going to use to hit the shot, Ferrari makes a tour of the history of Argentine literature. There are two people obsessed with Borges and a round mystery plot that demonstrates their maturity as an author.
Borges considered him a representative of everything ugly: gorilla, formal, aristocratic.
Ferrari continues to work in the Master’s section of Line B. It is a River fan: in fact, Franco Armani’s save are the first topic of conversation with Viva: “The guy, in each game, takes at least three hand to hand and saves us. Always, huh ”.
He is also a fan of Heavy Metal: his black -free black shirts with band legends are a classic in his clothing. Father of three boys -oliver (17 years old), Severino (12) and Matilda (10) -, Practice boxing and martial arts. One of the walls of his house hangs a nunchaku and a glove signed by former world champion Sergio Maravilla Martínez.
If you are reading this, Kike Ferrari’s new novel (Economic Culture Fund). Price: $ 20,000.Inveterate reader, “a fortune” has been spent on buying the books that served him to write his new novel. “It’s a twine that I am not going to recover: it is impossible to live from writing,” he smiles, resigned. Judging by the result, the effort was worth it.
Write If you are reading this It took almost three years. “That was nothing, because when I believed her finished, I corrected her as much as I left as another year. I couldn’t get out of the novel, ”he says.
In the end it came out, but what followed was fear: “I was a lot of doubts. If I previously doubted whether I was going to have the conditions to finish it as I liked, then I hesitated about whether someone else would like, or if I had written a book that interested me alone. ” And ditch: “I write the books that I would like to read and if later they have other readers, great. And if not, bad luck. ”
Ferrari is considered “fan” of Borges. However, he had his antiborgean moment: “I think it’s something that happens to everyone. Before starting to read it I was very young and He considered him a representative of everything ugly: gorilla, too formal, aristocratic. But once you read The Aleph o On Or any of his books, there is no prejudice that endures. Everything that is thought about him before reading it falls apart. A country that has Borges, is a country that has a literary tradition, ”he adds.
Ernesto Alterio in flies, a film based on a Kike Ferrari novel.My relationship with the cinematographic adaptations of my books is distant.
Direct to the big screen
That looks like fliesthat novel that catapulted him, was adapted to the cinema by the Spanish director Aritz Moreno and with Ernesto Alterio in the role of Maci, the glassy entrepreneur who finds a corpse in the trunk of his BMW. The movie, titled Flies, It was presented in 2024 at two European festivals (Brussels and Bilbao), had a very good impact and is waiting for its commercial premiere.
“My relationship with this type of adaptations is distant. The good thing is that you improve income. While I have a good salary for my work in the subway, it is always appreciated to add another. But I never participated in the scripts or anything of the filming, ”he says.
The “proletarian” fight is one of Ferrari’s flags, which goes beyond the writer’s label. With his colleagues, fight to improve working conditions in line B, which is the one that transports the most passengers and the one that is worse. Broken seats, old cars, lack of air, lights that do not work.
“And the Asbestos,” he clarifies so that the pollution problem that is generated in the workers is not forgotten, some of which, they have died to breathe this substance.
“From the union we fight a lot, and we continue to fight it, so that the subway workers can have a more or less stable work, as all the Argentines would have to have,” he releases. And he adds: “I mean a job that allows us to live and give us time to spend with our families or to develop the things we like to do.”
At this time, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires prepares recognition of its literary career. And the documentary is about to be released at the Toulouse The piletero, the metrodelegado and the body, A story in which he participates with the writer Félix Bruzzone.
There is a phrase at the beginning of If you are reading this that perhaps (perhaps) serve to define the book and its author, as if it were possible that they are one. Is the following: “They don’t believe in miracles. They believe in the stubborn work, the water that horses the stone. ”