Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
Carlos FuentesTag: 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 FuentesTag: creation content tradition form allusion
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
Carlos FuentesTag: 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 FuentesTag: 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 FuentesTag: 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 FuentesThe 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 FuentesOne 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 FuentesI 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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