Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.