How to write a novel in 13 points
Enrique Vila-Matas in the 1970s, when he was a lodger in the house of Marguerite Duras Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) Sometimes people ask really difficult questions. One of them, which crops up a lot,...
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Incredible the first animal that dreamed of another animal. Monstrous the first vertebrate that succeeded in standing on two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally and happily...
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Day 1 What is a creative ambassador? According to the blurb from the Arts Council of Wales, ‘The Creative Wales Ambassadors Awards are made by nomination and recognise . . . individual achievement in...
View ArticleFiction Fiesta, reality, and Alastair Reid
The first Borges story I ever read was ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’, in the translation by Alastair Reid, while living in a derelict shepherd’s hut on a Cretan hillside. A couple of years later, like...
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