Some interesting words from John Crowley about a recent Javier Marías appearance at Yale:
He writes with a typewriter, beginning with the first page, with a situation he has been brooding about, and some sense of the implications or characters involved, but no real storyline. He probes forward with this, discovering as he goes (he pointed out that the Latin root of “invent” also has the meaning “discover”), but here’s the thing: he does not ever go back and change what he has written.
Which puts an interesting take on the work of Marías’s that I’ve read. (And this also serves as a reminder that I need to delve back into Crowley’s Ægypt, and soon.
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