Margaret Jull Costa on Granta.com
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Issue 155
Travellers Inside the Marquee
Eudris Planche Savón
‘Katherine Mansfield has just stolen my chance to begin a conversation.’
Fiction by Eudris Planche Savón, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Issue 113
The Hotel Life
Javier Montes
‘The room was outside almost everything, certainly outside the law.’
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Issue 107
Julio Cortázar, 1914-84
Gabriel García Márquez
‘I felt he was the most impressive person I've known.’
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Issue 107
Testimonial
Martha Gellhorn
‘Governments think big; they think geopolitically. Human rights are irrelevant to geopolitics. This may kill us all in the end.’
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Issue 107
Mystery without End
Gabriel García Márquez
‘In a city where everyone knows everyone else and where there are secret agents everywhere - from the military, the police and the security forces - it's hard to believe that he was not found out.’
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Issue 107
Cheap Intellectuals
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘Europeans want a fictitious Latin America on to which they can project their own desires. They want a Latin America which satisfies a longing for political engagement that is not possible in their own countries.’
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Issue 107
Watching the Rain in Galicia
Gabriel García Márquez
‘Only then did I understand where my grandmother had got that credulity which allowed her to live in a supernatural world in which everything was possible and where rational explanations were totally lacking in validity.’
