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There Is An Incompatibility Between Literary Creation And Political Activity.

The Writer’s Job Is To Write With Rigor, With Commitment, To Defend What They Believe With All The Talent They Have. I Think That’s Part Of The Moral Obligation Of A Writer, Which Cannot Be Only Purely Artistic. I Think A Writer Has Some Kind Of Responsibility At Least To Participate In The Civic Debate. I Think Literature Is Impoverished, If It Becomes Cut From The Main Agenda Of People, Of Society, Of Life.

When I Was Young, When I Started To Write, We Were Totally Convinced That Literature Was A Kind Of Weapon.

A Novel Which Persuades Us Of Its Truth Is True However Full Of Lies It May Be

This Fact Was Something I Also Learned From This First Novel That I Needed Personal Experience To Invent, To Fantasize, To Create Fiction, But At The Same Time I Needed Some Distance, Some Perspective On This Experience In Order To Feel Free Enough To Manipulate It And To Transform It Into Fiction. If The Experience Is Very Close, I Feel Inhibited. I Have Never Been Able To Write Fiction About Something That Has Happened To Me Recently. If The Closeness Of The Real Reality, Of Living Reality, Is To Have A Persuasive Effect On My Imagination, I Need A Distance, A Distance In Time And In Space.