A Conversation with Milton Hatoum

  • Marília Librandi-Rocha Stanford University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v9i0.247
Keywords: Brazil, novel, reading, Amazon, authoriship

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.

Author Biography

Marília Librandi-Rocha, Stanford University
Marília Librandi-Rocha is Assistant Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at Stanford University. She is the author of Maranhão-Manhattan. Ensaios de Literatura Brasileira (2009). Her current book project, Writing by Ear, is devoted to understand the presence of the sense of audition in written texts, especially in the fiction of Clarice Lispector and João Guimarães Rosa.
Published
2011-10-03
Issue
Vol 9 (2011): ellipsis
Section
Interviews

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