Just Waking Up
“To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don’t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, Valle Inclàn and others. … Today’s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling Nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like Hemingway. Steinbeck is important due to American guns. Had Dos Passos and Faulkner been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who’d read them?” (more…)
