“Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but als…” — Milan Kundera

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.