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Like All Of Latin America, Mexico After Independence In 1821 Turned Its Back On A Triple Heritage: On The Spanish Heritage, Because We Were Newly Liberated Colonies, And On Our Indian And Black Heritages, Because We Considered Them Backward And Barbaric. We Looked Towards France, England And The U.s., To Become Progressive Democratic Republics.

In Literature, You Know Only What You Imagine

Robinson Crusoe, The First Capitalist Hero, Is A Self-made Man Who Accepts Objective Reality And Then Fashions It To His Needs Through The Work Ethic, Common Sense, Resilience, Technology, And, If Need Be, Racism And Imperialism.

You Have An Absolute Freedom In Mexican Writing Today In Which You Dont Necessarily Have To Deal With The Mexican Identity. You Know Why? Because We Have An Identity... We Know Who We Are. We Know What It Means To Be A Mexican.

I Believe In Books That Do Not Go To A Ready-made Public. I'm Looking For Readers I Would Like To Make. To Win Them, To Create Readers Rather Than To Give Something That Readers Are Expecting. That Would Bore Me To Death.