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Quotes:
“Felisberto Hernandez is a witer like no other not any American nor any Latin American. He is an “irregular” who elludes all classification and labeling, yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books.” Italo Calvino translator of Piano Stories
“The normal is estranged and the strange made normal” Frank Graziano about Felisberto’s writing.
“He marks the limit of our knowledge . . .he exceeds the relationships available to us through knowing.” Santiago Colas about Felisberto’s writing
“Anything I may feel obliged to reveal– or betray– about how I write will be external to them. They are not completely natural in the sense of having bee free from all conscious material– I would find that distressing.”
“ At any given moment I think a plant is about to be born in some corner of me.”
“My only certainty is that I can’t say how I write my stories, because each has a strange life of its own. But I am also aware of their constant battle of their constant battle against the strangers conciosness keeps urging them on.” How not to explain my stories
“Not only did my body weigh me down, but each of its parts wanted to live an independent life” Narrator in The Woman Who Looked Like Me
“ . . . I can feel all sorts of ideas going by on their way to somewhere else...I’ve collected memories that don’t belong to me.” Character from Except Julia
“Aren’t you fond of clothes?” “Sure, I am! . . . I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept something more from us than just the shapes our bodies and the whiff of our skin.” Character and Narrator from The Balcony.
“I’ll also have to write things I know very little about; it even strikes me impenetrably intrinsic to them. Perhaps when we think we know them we stop knowing that we don’t know them, because their existence is invetibly obscure and that must be one of their qualities.
“But I don’t believe I must write only what I know. I must also write other things.” Narrator in Around The Time of Clemente Colling.
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