Fair Book of Buenos Aires 2015 Banville // Letter to Rev. Father Paolo Rocca Carmine di Milano

 

Gli scrittori d’Italia cioe notizie storiche,……

Morì in Molfetta agli 11. d’Agosto (7) del 1622. e venne feppellito in quella Chiefa … Guglielmo Facciotto 1606. in 4; e in Colonia per Bernardo Gualtero 16o7. in 4. … Antonio Bovio Carmelitano al R. P. M. Paolo Rocca Priore del Carmine di Milano , nella quale fi discorre per modo di Annotazioni fopra a due Lettere del Doge

—.—–

 

Photo: twitter J. BANVILLE

• Novel is not about true, it is not true; but facts are just facts.

 

• Fiction is a shaped dream.

 

• Fiction: imagination makes the world.

 

• Literature -fiction- is not about genders. Good books are good books and they are -essentially- no bad books.

 

• Writers he reads: Chandler, Stark, G. Simenon, Ford … Nietzsche… I read philosophy much better than fiction. I also read science, cosmology, science about the space.

 

• Conscious of death makes life sweet.

 

• Literature is about making awareness of ourselves.

 

• I always try to work for Hollywood.

 

• Art is a process of concentration.

 

• It takes me 5 years to write a book as J. Banville. Much less as Black.

 

• Hollywood: wonderful cash, nobody knows how so much cash is there… it is a factory… 100% industrial; … not 100%, but 99% industrial.

 

• Our experience is very, very narrow; but we have feelings from the other world.

 

• We are final creatures in infinity.

 

• Political and Economic crisis are coming and going.

 

• We do not have social consciousness.

 

• Sex: What for with contraception?

 

F. Di Cino