"Classics don't just cross time, they cross frontiers … Fever Pitch is a very good novel…but are they reading it in Paris, Berlin, Moscow?" he said.
Such chips are already implanted into animals to act as "pet passports", identifying beasts that do not need to go into quarantine when they cross frontiers.
He adds, "when I think of a character, it's a black person; 99% of Mozambicans are black … I want to tell stories in the borderlines, and which cross frontiers".
Globalisation has been breaking down boundaries for a generation or more, no more so than in the parts of the world where consumers routinely cross frontiers to make their purchases of everything from household goods to petrol and groceries.
The assessment was released two months before European ministers are expected to debate whether to admit Romania and Bulgaria, the two newest E.U. members, to the Schengen zone, which allows travelers to cross frontiers without showing passports.
The exchange is the latest ill-tempered dispute over the future of the Schengen accord, which gives people the right to cross frontiers in most of Europe without stopping.
BERLIN — Under pressure from a growing nationalist movement, the government in Denmark on Thursday reintroduced stringent checks on its borders with Germany and Sweden, dealing a major setback to one of the European Union's most popular and tangible measures: the freedom to cross frontiers without controls.
A criminal quite like Sobhraj would be impossible now: Interpol is computerized; a person can't hop on and off airplanes and cross frontiers with nothing but fast talk, sexy smiles, and crappily forged passports; every jewelry store in the world has surveillance cameras, and soon every street in the world will have them too.
And many get to feel like foreigners in a country that should be welcoming them- after all, in 1898 Puerto Ricans did not cross the frontier, the frontier crossed Puerto Rico.
To give a sense of how regional consolidation has accelerated, more cross-frontier deal-making happened in the last two years than in the six years previous.
The European Court in 1995 decided that UEFA's rule broke EU law on the free cross-frontier movement of workers; as did an added issue a rule limiting the number of foreigners in any team.
