Zitat des Tages von Alvaro Enrigue:
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
The kitchen is the heart of the house.
Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.
Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.
I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.