Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth Quotes

“«Either of them now opposed to the genuine interests of a country that cannot allow itself the foolish luxury of any type of dispute,» lectured the acknowledged patriot Carranza i Brofegat.”
― Salvador Espriu, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth

“Nothing in this book has been invented. Everything told in it happened, one way or another. The young man possessed, and the old man preserves, a precise memory, an ear and vision diligent and acute. But neither of the two has benefited, not even on the rebound, from the brilliant, utterly enviable subtleties of the imagination.”
― Salvador Espriu, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth