The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
— Jose Saramago
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
