It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.