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Savage capitalism and globalization finished in the 1990s what dictatorship started in the 1970s. State policy favored big business that sought to seize the local markets.

— Ana María Shua

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I was proud of our cultural level in Argentina. It was our way of breathing and resistance and suddenly we were forced to avoid reality by choosing every word with concern.

A good translation must bring to the reader not only the meaning of the text, but also to its music —its rhythms.

Interview (2015)

Ethics and aesthetics are just the same in art; or at least they are integrated in a complex way.

Interview (2015)

I try to catch pieces from the chaos of reality and shape them in the small and fake and necessary cosmos of fiction.

Interview (2015)

Variety is my device. Each of my texts must startle the reader one way or another. I think that is one of the tasks literature must accomplish: to never let the reader feel really confortable.

Interview (2015)

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