"Before the actual novel came the idea of the novel, and that was not necessarily linked to the Anguillian revolution. Growing up in the periphery (Venezuela is the center of the world when compared to Anguilla, but it’s still the periphery), I was always attracted to tales of great accomplishments that were somehow largely ignored by everyone else. This was the case with the epic struggle of independence in South America, which, in my view, made Napoleon’s exploits in Europe seem trivial. Furthermore, we were often asked to learn about distant civilizations to which I could simply not relate (Phoenicians and Greeks, Ostrogoths and Byzantines), but we ignored indigenous civilizations in South America and, even more surprisingly, totally bypassed anything that happened in our immediate surroundings: the history of Colombia, of Ecuador, of Trinidad, or even of Curaçao." Montague Kobbé talks about the inspiration behind his debut novel, The Night of the Rambler: akashicbooks/montague-kobbe-on-writing-the-night-of-the-rambler/
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