Our senses are always part of the process.

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its…

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really…

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reli…

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. T…

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have u…

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo

The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them comple…

- Agustin Fernandez Mallo