At Tweed's Randy Rosenthal and Laura Mae Isaacman have a Q & A with Andrés Neuman -- author of the novels Talking to Ourselves and Traveler of the Century.
He argues:
He argues:
A narrative is very useful. It's like a laboratory in which all your past conflicts are rehearsed, and that's why narrative is like a second life. I would say it's twice real. Because there's you -- your present, your life, your memory -- and then there's what might happen. It's like your life plus your potential lives. It's you plus potential you.