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Here is a great interview with him in The Paris Review [1]. I love when he says, "It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagina
by interpares 12y ago
Here is a great interview with him in The Paris Review [1]. I love when he says,
"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
I know the Caribbean very well and could not agree more.
[1] http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fiction-no-69-gabriel-garcia-marquez http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fic...