… Or, ‘On the Novel’ – An Interview with AgustÃn Fernández Mallo
I believe that research for a novel is like a stone tied round the writer’s foot, it doesn’t allow him or her to move forward, he or she sinks. You have to be brave, imaginative and suggest nonsense which nevertheless has to be credible. This is the challenge: verisimilitude, not truth.
John Trefry interviews AgustÃn Fernández Mallo.