Julio Cortázar
A storyteller is a man who suddenly surrounded by the overwhelming din of the world, committed to a greater or lesser extent with the historical reality that it contains, choose a particular topic and makes him a story. This set a theme is not so simple. Sometimes the storyteller chooses, and sometimes feels as if the subject being imposed on him irresistibly pushed him to write. In my case, most of my stories were written, how to say-regardless of my will, above or below razonante my conscience, as if I were nothing but a medium through which passed and manifested an alien force
.[...] [...] I think that the issue of coming out a good story is always exceptional, but I do not mean that a subject should be extraordinary, unusual, mysterious or unusual. On the contrary, it may be a perfectly trivial and everyday anecdotes. The uniqueness lies in a quality similar to the magnet, a good topic attracts a whole system of relations connected, clots in the author, and later in the reader an immense amount of ideas, entrevisiones, feelings and ideas that floated up virtually in their memory or their sensitivity, a good song is like a sun, a star which revolves around a planetary system which was often not aware until the writer, astronomer of words reveals their existence. Or to be more modest and more current at a time, a good theme has some atomic system, the nucleus around which electrons rotate, and so, finally, after all, is not it as a proposition of life, a dynamic that urges us out of ourselves and enter into a relationship more complex and beautiful ?[...]
[...] And this man who at some point choose a theme and makes him a story will be a great storyteller if your choice has, at times without his knowing it consciously, that fabulous opening of the small to the large, individual and confined to the very essence of the human condition. All enduring tale is like a seed which is sleeping giant tree. This tree will grow between us, will the shadow in our memory.
