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Last night, I went to Bozar to meet the writer. Zadie Smith’s answers just confirmed what she writes in her essays. She’s a coherent and a free thinker. There were about 1800 persons.
She talked among other things, about compassion, how politics is an unavoidable aspect of human life, about change and about growing old and how absurd and dangerous the idea of eternal life is.

In front of a book, you are still free. Between reader and book, there is only the continual risk of wrongness, word by word, sentence by sentence. The Internet does not get to decide. Nor does the writer. Only the reader decides. So decide.

Las escritoras de mi generación hablan con embeleso del "estilo" Didion. Una cuestión de autoridad. La autoridad del tono. Podía hablar sin apostar sobre seguro, sin ambages ni titubeos, sin quedar bien, sin lirismo, sin candor ni dulzura, sin deferencia e incluso sin duda. [...] Querías creer. Necesitabas evidencias. Y no evidencias victorianas. Didion —como Toni Morrison— se convirtió en la Prueba Número 1.