I Must Write The Book Out In

By Its Very Nature, The Novel Indicates That We Are Becoming. There Is No Final Solution. There Is No Last Word.

Children Know How To Be Cruel, And The Cruelty Of Their Elders Is The Surest Residue Of The Malaise The Young Feel Toward Things Strange, Things Other, Things That Reveal Our Own Ignorance Or Insufficiency

For Me, Life Without Literature Is Inconceivable. I Think That Don Quixote In A Physical Sense Never Existed, But Don Quixote Exists More Than Anybody Who Existed In 1605. Much More. There's Nobody Who Can Compete With Don Quixote Or With Hamlet. So In The End We Have The Reality Of The Book As The Reality Of The World And The Reality Of History.

Religion Is Dogmatic. Politic Is Ideological. Reason Must Be Logical, But Literature Has A Privilege Of Being Equivocal.

Now The Masses Of Latin America Are Electing Governments They Feel Can Take Forward The Democratic Reforms Of The Last 20 Years, And Transform Them Into Social And Economic Reforms. This Is, I Think, Extremely Important, Because It Also Means That The Left Has Abandoned The Revolutionary Solution Proposed By Che Guevara And Has Taken The Democratic Path.