"Snob": Elísabet Benavent's new novel that analyzes fragile masculinity and new relationships.

Spanish writer Elísabet Benavent says that "I really wanted to talk about snobbery , about privilege , about all these people who don't question where they come from and why they see the world the way they do," in her latest romantic comedy, titled Esnob .

In this new title, the author of A Perfect Story, We Were Songs , and The Saga of Valeria , the first of three of her works brought to the screen, explores the male perspective in the foreground for the first time , using romanticism as an excuse to talk about prejudices, expectations, self-perception, and the changes in the way we relate.

"I also wanted to talk about how much meeting someone has changed with new technologies. The backdrop for Snob is a dating app, which is what unites the protagonists, not because they meet through it, but because they work on it," Benavent introduced in an interview in Lima.

Her new novel presents two atypically stereotypical characters , the product of the refined practice that the author has been using with protagonists throughout her work.

"I think that in recent years, male characters have changed , especially," Benavent said. " I've gone from the Prince Charming that fueled romantic literature to a man who questions fragile masculinity, the social pressures that are exerted, etc.," he added.

Although she was drawn to the idea of "talking about privilege" and "questioning it" in audiovisual entertainment, the novelist admitted that her vision now focuses on other open fronts .

Just as in personal relationships, technology has generated new consumer habits , with strict time limits, exaggerated demands for attention and constant stimuli that could make the folio an incomplete entertainment, an idea with which, however, the author does not agree, especially among young people.

"Right now everything is so immediate that reading requires an effort, but people read and young people read a lot , sometimes more than older people," said the author,

According to the author, this audience has many characteristics , as they have fewer worries than adults, have more time, are less prejudiced, and are very curious, which "is the engine of learning."

" Young people read a lot; they're developing a global culture because they read everything . Thousands of books reach teenagers, and they filter their own information, which also creates their own criteria," Benavent commented.

Although she rejects the excessive use of social media, the writer, born in 1984 in Gandia (Valencia) , highlighted the platforms as a space where a community has been created , impressions and recommendations are shared, and, in short, they have made reading something 'cool', always insisting that "real life is outside."

"I'm very afraid, not so much of the blank page, but of running out of ideas, of stories," Benavent said about the origin of his more than twenty-three publications .

In this exercise of "entertainment," the author admitted to collecting each germ as a possible future text , looking for topics in conversations, songs, or ideas where a context could be generated in which to go further.

"I want to talk about the good girl syndrome, self-demand, job insecurity, the glass ceiling, feminism, relationships, toxicity, sensuality, sexuality, desire, taboos," she listed in a myriad of concerns that, within the lines of her work, spark a conversation beyond romanticism.

The author, who was at the Lima International Book Fair (FIL) with her work A Perfect Story (2021), admitted that the writing profession is solitary and that it is when meeting her readers that one confirms "whether it has worked or not."

It is with them, Benavent assures, that he discovers new visions, opinions, errors, and it is here that the work is enriched because "in the end, it is the outside eye that completes it, always."

Currently, Benavent is "filing and correcting" what will be her next novel, still untitled , which she will present in Spain in the spring of 2026, a project that she shares with the executive production of the filming of Toda la verdad de mis mentiras , the new audiovisual adaptation of her novel.