"When I was a young man I thought Dostoevsky was the greatest novelist. And then after ten years or so, when I reread him, I felt greatly disappointed. I felt that the characters were unreal and that also the characters were part of a plot. Because in real life, even in a difficult situation, even when you are worried very much about something, even when you feel anguish or when you feel hatred-well, I've never felt hatred-or love or fury maybe, you also live along other lines, no? I mean, a man is in love, but at the same time he is interested in the cinema, or he is thinking about mathematics or poetry or politics, while in novels, in most novels, the characters are simply living through what's happening to them. No, that might be the case with very simple people, but I don't see, I don't think that happens.
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Kafka is closer to poetry really. He works with metaphors and types as opposed to characters."
Jorge Luis Borges, The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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