It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
From Manuel Puig
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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