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Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.
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Suburbia
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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
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Thirst
Tremendous
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Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.
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Brilliant
Conventions
Generic
Defy
Veronica
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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
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Experimentation
Mexico
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Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a maestro.
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Angry
Young Man
Tormented
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My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.
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Conventional
Reluctance
Definition
Pirates
Ruled
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I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'
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What If
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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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Cooking
Offers
Life Time New
Useful
Bubble
Literary
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I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.
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Capability
Explanation
Inspiration
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I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.
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Wondrous
Nowhere
Clues
Magical
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I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'
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Magazines
National Geographic
Geographic
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There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.
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Brutal
Cardinals
Tennis
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I was not able to be the front forward of a soccer team - that is a way to make people super happy every Sunday. What I can do is tell stories and try to put my coin in that discussion.
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Discussion
Soccer
Sunday
People Way Happy
People Way Try
Coin
Every Sunday
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History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
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Archives
Construction
Santa
Santa Claus
Tree
Presents
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Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
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Contemporary
Disbelief
Suspension
Adjective
Mandatory
Precisely
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Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.
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Register
Target
Thanks
Alien
Languages
Expand
Forces
Speaker
Translation
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Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'
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Castro
Cuban
Detention
Scandalous
Subversive
Activities
Mr
Charges
Confess
Forced
Union
Trial
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In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.
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Joyce
Minimum
Ulysses
Life Man Living
Bloom
Reduce
Spanish
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In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'.
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Interpretation
Manhattan
Mexican
Mexico
Mexico City
Modernization
Boom
Composed
Portrait
Transfer
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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
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Differences
Transformed
Appear
Author
Essay
Glance
Gradually
Narrator
Parrot
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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world.
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America
Century
Cities
Havana
Latin
Latin America
Mexico
Mexico City
Real
Books
Became
Better World
Read
Eventually
Global
Incredibly
Poets
Tried
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The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.
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Extraordinary
Joyce
Modern Man
Odyssey
Ulysses
Adventures
Consists
Experienced
Homer
Premise
Provided
Single Day
Title
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