And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.