They arrived in Venezuela, where Allende's eyes, she says, were opened. In 1974, she fled her native Chile with her family. Wouldn't it be better to turn to writing novels? In literature, these defects are virtues." I suspect that you lie a lot, and when there is no news, you invent it. "You're incapable of being objective, you put yourself at the centre of everything. "You must be the worst journalist in the country," the great poet told the young writer.
I'm a lousy journalist because I can't stick to the plain truth, I have to embellish it." "I don't think I could write a novel about it, it would have to be biography and I am not good at that. Even the prospect of writing the story of her uncle, Salvador Allende, the former president of Chile who was assassinated in the 1973 coup, had not persuaded her. The decision to become a writer for hire was something Allende had previously resisted. Are you interested?' I said, 'OK, we'll go 50-50.' And that was it." They said, 'We have the character and you have the talent to write the book. Zorro has only his own skills." She prefers not to refer to the job as a commission.
He's the father of all the action heroes with the double personality. "And so I fell in love again with Zorro," she says, in her lilting English, "because I had been in love with him when I was a child.
Rather than taking no for an answer, however, the visitors left a box full of Zorro artefacts - tapes of old movies, comics, recordings of the TV series. "I said, 'What are you talking about? I'm a serious writer,'" the serious writer explains, sitting in her living room, a picture window providing a backdrop of clouds scudding across the bay. And so they knocked on Isabel Allende's door. So the search began for a writer for hire, someone to fill in the backstory of Zorro, the early years someone who, like Zorro, knew California well and could think in Spanish someone with a track record in historical research someone who could bring a Latin sensibility to the myth of the Mexican-American do-gooder. It had occurred to Gertz that Zorro had appeared in films, TV shows, comics - everything except serious literature.
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