(about Argentina) Its tendencies are self-destructive. Everything here is concerned with death, not life. Argentina functions opposite to the way it … - Angélica Gorodischer

(about the Kalpa Imperial stories) I thought I was writing a Western version of The Thousand and One Nights. But in 1983 when the initial volume was published, I realized it was all about terror. The fictions brought me round to reality.

Influences are very subtle currents. One doesn’t learn anything directly, one absorbs (at least in my case that’s how it is) and swallows and assimilates and sometimes it comes out in some other way. I consider that my literary father is Borges (together with Balzac, Arlt, Woolf, Flash Gordon and the Duchess of Alba in a portrait painted by Goya).

I believe all of us are constantly writing the text-that-is-the-world.