When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation. — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
