See, Mexican society is kind of isolated. You see only 10 percent of it. What's happening behind is the most important thing. Mexican society is full of disinformation, hidden things, strange stories behind reality, behind appearances. I felt when I was twenty years old that the mystery structure of storytelling was a very good front for Mexican society.
Disinformation is the biggest Mexican art of the twentieth century.
Therefore I decided mystery was the field to talk about the society. That was the first thing. The second thing was that in the end of the 1960s, when I started writing, most of the young writers of my generation were mad about form . I was extremely bored by that. They were producing novels that nobody could read, a kind of doctors' language, in which a doctor can understand another doctor but nobody else.