Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: literature language
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
Carlos FuentesThere is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: creation content tradition form allusion
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: culture
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: imagination truth story novel
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: reality capitalism imperialism racism
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: words myth images
The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: freedom story narrative
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
Carlos FuentesStichwörter: books writing death
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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