The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

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