Margo Glantz, a Mexican writer of all genres, maintains a daily chat with dozens of people about the Greek tragedy, reflects on Twitter live and campaigns freely in the digital world. At 90 years old and after a couple of attempts, we managed to connect and celebrate this interview in which he talks about his new book, a tour of women protagonists and authors of literature, and recommends an endless number of books on confinements that he is reviewing. Some related to this The text finds a body. Others, with the ability to bilocate as the one that Sor María de Ágreda developed in her convent and that Casanova read in her own confinement.
"I try to maintain a very strict structure, a routine that gives me balance to endure all these months, I wake up at the same time, I get ready as if I were going out, and I start writing at 10," he says from home. I'm in a chat with 50 friends talking about Aeschylus' supplicants right now . Besides I do my daily tweets and I go to work on my computer until 3 in the afternoon trying to write a diary, the number 1,852,000 of the pandemic, because we are all writing a diary of the pandemic. I try to pose my own problems in the face of the pandemic, how I see reality from my window, "says the author.
He does not have high hopes that we will become better because of the pandemic "because our governments are quite sinister and do not want the economy to relax. At first we are better, but at the end of the month we fall into the same situation again."
Glantz (Mexico City, 1930) talks about these works:
His new book: The text finds a body, Margo Glanz, Ampersand editorial.
And recommends:
- Memories, Giacomo Casanova.
- Robinson Crusoe and Plague Year Diary, Daniel Defoe.
- Tragedies, Aeschylus.
- Two years at the foot of the mast, Richard Henry Dana.
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville.
- Works by Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda.
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