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Guillermo Arriaga in conversation with Sonia Corona

The man of many voices

 
Querétaro 2025, 

In both the screenplays and novels of Guillermo Arriaga there appear many different voices. From 21 Grams, to El salvaje and Babel, his fiction is created through intertwined stories, all facets of the human identity. This can be seen once again in El Hombre, his most recent novel: six characters, speaking from different times, all related to Henry Lloyd. Human brutality, that other very Arriaga ingredient, is also present in its pages.