Esquivel, Laura - Claudia Loewenstein with Laura Esquivel (interview date 25 July 1993)
Claudia Loewenstein with Laura Esquivel (interview date 25 July 1993)
SOURCE: “Revolución interior al exterior: An Interview with Laura Esquivel,” in Southwest Review, Vol. 79, No. 4, Autumn, 1994, pp. 592–607.
[In the following interview, which was conducted on July 25, 1993, Loewenstein and Esquivel discuss Como agua para chocolate and its impact on readers and on Esquivel herself.]
Author’s note: This interview was conducted on 25 July 1993 in the Spanish School at Middlebury College, where Laura Esquivel was a visiting lecturer. The interview was conducted in Spanish and translated into English by Anne Marie Wiseman.
[Loewenstein:] Laura, your book opens and closes with the weepy, onion scene, and surely you know you have people sobbing in their living rooms and in the movie theaters!
[Esquivel:] That’s true. I think that’s because I am a cry-baby! I think it’s very healthy and...
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