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“Every translator’s origin story seems to involve a measure of serendipity, and mine is no exception.”
― Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
― Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto
“We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.”
― Letters to a Young Novelist
― Letters to a Young Novelist
“All of us, more or less, wear masks. Because without masks we can’t survive in this violent world. Beneath an evil-spirit mask lies the natural face of an angel, beneath an angel’s mask lies the face of an evil spirit. It’s impossible to have just one or the other. That’s who we are. And that’s Carnaval. Schumann was able to see the many faces of humanity—the masks and the real faces—because he himself was a deeply divided soul, a person who lived in the stifling gap in between the two.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
“I started to make a literary being of myself, someone who lives as if her experiences were to be written down someday.”
― Mémoire de fille
― Mémoire de fille
“Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.”
― Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso
― Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso
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