Guillermo Arriaga: “The Novelists Must Teach Human Nature with All Its Bemoles, Chiaroscuros, Summits and Abysses”

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The one that emerged as an idea for the screenplay of a film became an epic novel. Writer Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico City, 65) has written a polyphonic work with which he immerses himself in the origins of capitalism and the conformation of the United States as a great power founded on excessive greed, ambition, brutality, slavery and blood, rivers of blood as the ink that runs along almost 700 pages that make up The Man (Alfaguara), Arriaga's ne…