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A Conversation with Julián Ríos By Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier | Dalkey Archive Press

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A: No, absolutely not, but every reading is gradual. There are various levels or stories in any minimally complex work. I would like my tower of Babel or babble to have many stories, different floors and different tales. One can remain on the ground floor, go up to the second level, stay somewhere in the middle, or survey the view from the roof. The reader can glance over something quickly and in passing, like in a stroboscope, or he can stop and observe the details. For instance, when you look at the paintings of the Flemish master Brueghel or those of the meticulous Victorian painter Richard Dadd, you first see them from a distance, so as to catch their panoramic scope, and then you get closer to look at all the details you couldn’t see from afar. I believe readers should do the same thing. Q: Your two characters, Babelle and Milalias, live a life of literature more than a real life, isn’t that right? A: There is a continuous process of osmosis between life and literature. In additio

A Conversation with Julián Ríos By Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier | Dalkey Archive Press Skip to content Browse Publications August 2, 2013 A Conversation with Julián Ríos By Marie-Lise Gazarian Gautier Q: Do your readers have to go through a period of initiation to understand your work? A: No, absolutely not, but every reading is gradual. There are various levels or stories in any minimally complex work. I would like my tower of Babel or babble to have many stories, different floors and different tales. One can remain on the ground floor, go up to the second level, stay somewhere in the middle,

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