Abstract
Acclaimed author Milton Hatoum is originally from a part of the world that has become the center of debates concerning our planetary survival: the Amazon. In this interview—the first extensive interview published in English—he describes how he transforms his experiences of living, traveling, and reading into the written word, and presents a beautiful and specific definition of the reader as a "stationary traveler." Based on questions sent in by e-mail by scholars from all over Brazil and other parts of the world, Hatoum speaks about several of his novels and describes the differences between documentary-based and experimental literary production.
Highlights
The interview was organized by Marília Librandi-Rocha (Stanford University) and Lucia Ricotta (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia), and questions were posed by Stefania Chiarelli (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Luiz Costa Lima (PUC-Rio), John Gledson (University of Liverpool), Marília
Stefania Chiarelli: In your work, you compare the idea of reading and traveling with the notion of travel as reading, and your books provide the only permanent home for your characters, contrasting with the geographical, psychological and cultural dislocations that they experience in their fictional existence
When I was very young, I left Manaus to study in Brasília
Summary
The interview was organized by Marília Librandi-Rocha (Stanford University) and Lucia Ricotta (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia), and questions were posed by Stefania Chiarelli (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Luiz Costa Lima (PUC-Rio), John Gledson (University of Liverpool), Marília. Having published a book of poetry in 1978, I lived in many cities in Brazil and Europe while I was trying to become a writer.
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