Interview excerpt:
What book changed your life?
Books don’t change your life. At most, if they are good, they can hurt and bring confusion. Kafka’s The Trial still upsets me.
Who are your literary influences?
Two very different authors: Virginia Woolf and Elsa Morante. Both are unequalled. I studied their writing for a long time, then I put them aside out of frustration.
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