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Great rock n' roll comes from suburbia.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Great Rock Rock N Roll Roll

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In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Conservative Considered Experimentation Form Mexico Politically Terms Think I Think

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I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Always Good Job Love Novel Reading Remember Why I Remember I Love

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Vivian Abenshushan and Veronica Gerber write brilliant books that defy generic conventions.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Books Brilliant Conventions Defy Generic Veronica Write

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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.'

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Able Before Being Comics English Everything Fiction Geographic Learned Magazines National National Geographic Read Reading Speak Word Years

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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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Topics: Conventional Definition Freedom Life Live Pirates Reluctance Ruled Still

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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?'

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Happened Historical Novels Other Way What If Wonder Write

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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.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: About Archives Construction Existence History Language Like None Presents Really Santa Santa Claus Seen Some Them Tree

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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.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Alien Because Expand Forces Language Languages Original Register Speaker Structures Target Thanks Think Translation Used Using Ways Were Words

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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.'

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: Activities After Against Castro Charges Confess Cuban Days Detention Figure Forced Most Political Scandalous Show Subversive Trial Union Writer Writers Mr

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 6th, 1969

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