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 can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing. — 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
