Yo también creía que por París uno podía hacer todos los sacrificios.
Was there no limit to the suffering of human beings? The world was infested with these enclaves of savagery that awaited him in Putumayo. How many? Hundreds, thousands, millions? Could the hydra be de...
This manna from heaven was being squandered because of the laziness and stupidity of the savages who refused to work as harvesters of latex and obliged the planters to go to the tribes and take them b...
The same horrors were repeated, with minor variations, inspired by greed, the original sin that accompanied human beings from birth, the hidden inspiration of their infinite wickedness. Or was there s...
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to...
Scrivere un romanzo è una cerimonia che somiglia allo streap-tease. Come la ragazza che, sotto impudichi riflettori, si libera dei propri indumenti e mostra, a uno a uno, i suoi incanti segreti, così...
Por más que uno fuera precavido y planeara sus acciones con la mayor lucidez, la vida, más compleja que todos los cálculos, hacía estallar los esquemas y los reemplazaba por situaciones inciertas y co...
One of the most damaging myths of our time is that poor countries live in poverty because of a conspiracy of the rich countries, who arrange things so as to keep them underdeveloped, in order to explo...
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Mis infortunios sentimentales se debían más a mí que a ella, por haberla querido de una manera que ella nunca hubiera podido quererme a mí, aunque, en algunas contadas ocasiones, lo intentara.
Mentira, el recuerdo del colegio despertaba aún esa inevitable sensación sombría y huraña bajo la cual su espíritu se contraía como una mimosa al contacto de la piel humana. Sólo que el malestar era c...
Los grandes enemigos del mercado libre son los privilegios, el monopolio, los subsidios, los controles, las prohibiciones.
Las referencias feroces, aunque vagas, que escuchaba en boca de los cadetes, estimulaban su imaginación. En sueños, el nombre se presentaba dotado de atributos carnales, extraños y contradictorios, la...
It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live the impossible, taking them out of themselves, breaking down barriers, and making them share, by identifying with t...
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
It is not bad that the main beneficiaries of freedom criticize open societies, where there is much that can be criticized. It is bad if they do so by taking the side of those who seek to destroy these...
He undressed and, wearing slippers and a robe, went to the bathroom to shave. He turned on the radio. They read the newspapers on the Dominican Voice and Caribbean Radio. Until a few years ago the new...
Germany represented the future because it carried no colonial ballast,
De fiecare data, imi aparea tot mai clar ca unicul lucru pe care doream sa-l fac in viata era sa devin scriitor si astfel mi se intarea convingerea ca singura cale pentru a reusi este aceea de a te da...
Alberto caminaba de vuelta a su casa, ensimismado, aturdido. El invierno moribundo se despedía de Miraflores con una súbita neblina que se había instalado a media altura, entre la tierra y la cresta d...