If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
