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Quote by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.”

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Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Agustin Fernandez Mallo is a renowned Spanish writer born in 1967. His works are known for their unique literary style and profound insights into the reality of the world. more

“In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.”

Important Book Concerned Quotations Translations Worldview

Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.”

Culture Illusion Fallacy

Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing.”

Writing Novel Independent

Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“The structure of my novels has nothing to do with the narrative mode of cinema. My novels would be very difficult to film without ruining them completely. I think this is the area where writers need to place ourselves: from a position of absolute modernity and contemporaneity, creating a culture of objects which cinema cannot.”

Thinking Film Culture Difficult Novel

Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo

“I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.”

Thinking Term Evolution

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.”

Thinking Character Criticism Compliment

Author:Adrian Tomine

“For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.”

People Writing Trying Kind Guy Culture Caught Up Being Cool

Author:Adrian Tomine

“If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.”

Guy Ambition Window

Author:Adrian Tomine

“For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.”

Children Parent Being A Parent

Author:Adrian Tomine

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