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	Carlos Fuentes Papers
		Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama, on November 11, 1928, the son of Berta Macías Rivas and Rafael Fuentes Boettiger.
		Fuentes' plays Todos los gatos son pardos and El tuerto es rey were first published in 1970, and in the same year El tuerto es rey was produced at the Theater an der Wien of Vienna and the Festival of Avignon (France).
		Fuentes served as both principal writer and onscreen host of five television programs which explore the history of Spain and Latin America in light of the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's landing on the island of San Salvador in 1492.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/fuentes (4683 words)

	Carlos Fuentes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world.
		His son, Carlos Fuentes Lemus, died from complications associated with hemophilia in 1999 at the age of 25.
		The archetypes of Carlos Fuentes: from witch to androgyne / Durán, Gloria., 1980
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlos_Fuentes (656 words)

	Excerpt \| The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
		As in Fuentes' masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and then moves to Mexico City, tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that is an important element in Laura Diaz' life as well as in Mexico's history.
		In this most important novel in decades, Carlos Fuentes places the complex world of the 20th century firmly in the hands of a heroine who is sure to become a lasting emblem of Mexico's recent past.
		Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, was educated in schools in Mexico, the United States and various cities in South America.
	www.januarymagazine.com /excerpts/fuentesexcerpt.html (2454 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Years with Laura Diaz: Books: Carlos Fuentes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fuentes draws on his own family history to weave a tale of love and tragedy and of extraordinary people whose lives and work influenced their times.
		Fuentes argues correctly that McCarthy was a demagogue run amok, smearing people for his own political reasons, rather than on the basis of evidence or out of any moral sense of right and wrong.
		Fuentes manages to place Laura Diaz at almost every important cultural and political event between 1905 and the 1970's-from pre-revolutionary hacienda life, through the building of Mexico's union movement, to the Spanish Civil War, and the massacre of students at Tlatelolco on the eve of the 1968 Olympics.
	www.amazon.ca /Years-Laura-Diaz-Carlos-Fuentes/dp/0156007568 (2908 words)

	HGSE News: A Literary Legend Speaks--Carlos Fuentes at the Askwith Education Forum
		Fuentes has combined his life as a writer and scholar with a successful career in international relations, which culminated in his appointment as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977.
		Fuentes characterized the work of the major Latin American authors of his generation as attempting to "give voice to a silent past," giving a second chance to history "to include within the novel form what had been silenced or persecuted...
		Fuentes noted that "invasions" of culture occur from both sides and said he has no fear for mexicanidad because "a Mexican knows what it means to be Mexican.
	www.gse.harvard.edu /news/features/fuentes12012000.html (595 words)

	Carlos Fuentes Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Carlos Fuentes (born 1928) was a Mexican short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and political writer whose works are a mixture of social protest, realism, psychological insight, and fantasy.
		Carlos Fuentes was born on Nov. 11, 1928, in Mexico City.
		In this work Fuentes covers half a century of Mexican life, portraying the class that predominated in Mexico at the time, as represented by a man who took part in some of the skirmishes of the Revolution and, beginning in 1920, started to make a large fortune and acquire immense power.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-carlos-fuentes (925 words)

	Christopher Unborn - Carlos Fuentes
		Fuentes ransacks Conrad, Cortazar, the satirical poet Quevedo, Kafka, the Bible, Don Quixote, Don Juan, the novelist Juan Rulfo and the Mexican boy-wonder writers of the late 1960's who made rock lyrics, street slang and slum life part of their country's literary tradition.
		It is the five-hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of America, and as part of the festivities there is a 'Contest of the Quincentennial of the Discovery of America', the grand prize going to the male child born at midnight, 12 October, whose family name most resembles that of Columbus.
		Mexican author Carlos Fuentes was born in 1928.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/fuentesc/cunborn.htm (858 words)

	Carlos Fuentes Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America’s most distinguished novelists and a one-man international cultural and political force.
		Born in 1928, Carlos Fuentes spent his youth in Washington, DC, where his father was posted as a Mexican diplomatic representative.
		Fuentes is the recipient of Italy’s Cavour Award and the Principe De Asturias Award of Spain, and has been awarded Brazil’s highest honor, The Order of the Southern Cross, as well as the Picasso Medal by UNESCO.
	provost.syr.edu /lectures/fuentes.asp (669 words)

	This I Believe - Carlos Fuentes
		It's possible Fuentes writes a hideous Spanish which she faithfully renders into hideous English, but it seems more likely that he's an old smoothie as a stylist, which is how he can get away with so much vacuous preening in the original.
		Fuentes is a creative writer, but he's also very much in the Latin American and European tradition of the engaged writer-intellectual.
		Fortunately, Fuentes largely avoids specifics of this sort, and his more general look at international issues are fairly well expressed and of some interest.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/fuentesc/thisib.htm (1296 words)

	Noted author Carlos Fuentes to speak Mar. 27 at UTSA
		Fuentes is considered one of the most important contemporary voices in Latin American literature.
		Fuentes' roving childhood existence led to an education received partly in English and partly in Spanish.
		Fuentes' works include over a dozen novels, beginning with his classic, "La region mas transparente"/"Where the Air is Clear" in 1958.
	www.utsa.edu /today/news/archive/2002/january/fuentes.cfm (413 words)

	Metroactive Events \| Carlos Fuentes
		Fuentes' visit, brought about by an invitation from the San Jose Center for Latino Arts (MACLA), is part of an effort by the center to introduce Silicon Valley to Latin American intellectual life--and to bring new breath to complex topics like immigration and NAFTA.
		Fuentes addresses the thorny subject of how the U.S. and Mexico can coexist in his latest book of essays, A New Time for Mexico, but this speaking engagement, Alvarez insists, is not part of a book tour.
		In responding to her invitation, Fuentes told Alvarez he is very interested in visiting San Jose, a city with a strong Mexican heritage on the cusp of the information age.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.03.97/fuentes-9714.html (503 words)

	Royce Carlton - Carlos Fuentes Latin American Novelist
		Carlos Fuentes is one of those rare writers who, by the sheer power of literary art, has defined the cultural, emotional and hereditary identity of an entire continent.
		Fuentes’ novels (including the classics Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz and the New York Times bestseller, The Old Gringo) look deeply into the identity of Latin America, its internal conflicts with its triplicate lineage (Native American, African and Spanish) and its contentious relationship with the superpower to the north.
		Fuentes inaugurated the Robert F. Kennedy Chair in Latin American Studies at Harvard and was the Simon Bolivar Professor at Cambridge.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/fuentes.html (535 words)

	Williams, The Writings of Carlos Fuentes, University of Texas Press
		"Fuentes is no longer a Mexican novelist; he is part of world literature, and this book should interest all those who have read him in translation."
		Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere.
		He opens with a biography of Fuentes that links his works to his intellectual life.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/wilwri.html (259 words)

	Carlos Fuentes
		Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City, but his parents were Mexican, and he later became a Mexican citizen.
		As a posture of rebellion, Fuentes decided to be a writer, but eventually followed the advice of Alfonso Reyes: "You must become a licenciado, a lawyer; then you can do whatever you please, as I did." Fuentes entered the School of Law at the National University of Mexico, receiving his LL.B. in 1948.
		In the story Fuentes recreated a girl he had met as a child in Mexico and years later again in Paris: "She was another, she had been another, not she who was going to be but she who, always, was being."
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /fuentes.htm (1669 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Writings of Carlos Fuentes: Books: Raymond Leslie Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere.
		The heart of the study is Williams' extensive reading of the novel Terra Nostra, in which Fuentes explores the presence of Spanish culture and history in Latin America.
		Williams concludes with a look at how Fuentes' other fiction relates to Terra Nostra, including Fuentes' own division of his work into fourteen cycles that he calls "La Edad del Tiempo," and with an interview in which Fuentes discusses his concept of this cyclical division.
	www.amazon.ca /Writings-Fuentes-Raymond-Leslie-Williams/dp/029279097X (309 words)

	HISTORY OF MEXICO - REBEL, INTERNATIONALIST, ESTABLISHMENTARIAN: CARLOS FUENTES - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
		Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 and Fuentes was an early and enthusiastic supporter of the Cuban Marxist leader.
		If the ideological orientation of Fuentes resembles a roller coaster ride, there is nothing up-and-down about his literary career, which has been an unbroken string of successes and awards.
		For all his critical and commercial success and political tergiversations, it would appear that Carlos Fuentes is a man very much in the market for a spiritual anchor.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtcfuentes.html (1093 words)

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	The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo . Understanding Frida Today . Interview with Carlos Fuentes \| PBS
		Fuentes: She fits in beautifully because you don't have the large without the small.
		Fuentes: Because she is a woman who cannot reveal the pain inside her except through the painting of her own self.
		Fuentes: She understood about the camera that this is a record of the instant.
	www.pbs.org /weta/fridakahlo/today/fuentes.html (1412 words)

	Carlos Fuentes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Carlos Fuentes has become one of the most renown Latin American writers.
		Carlos Fuentes speaks about the current treatment of the indigenous in Mexico.
		Carlos Fuentes writes about one of the Pinochet victims.
	www.lasculturas.com /lib/libFuentesCarlos.htm (123 words)

	Carlos Fuentes on Chiapas
		Commandante Marcos, the spokesman of the Chiapas rebels, has said that Fuentes is his favorite writer.
		He could have taken the trigger-happy path of repression that is the usual temptation of authoritarian governments.
		Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's leading writers and often its "voice of political consciousness" recently spoke about the political problems in Chiapas.
	www.indians.org /welker/carlosfu.htm (2372 words)

	Carlos Fuentes : The Years with Laura Diaz : Book Review
		So when Fuentes explores the twentieth century through Laura Díaz, the novel is abundant with the ironies that time presents to any ideology, especially one's own.
		For the rest of her life, she refuses to hide her missing fingers to the consternation of her husband; for it is said that from that day forward she harbored a secret love for the Hunk.
		Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, spent his youth in Washington, DC, where his father was posted as a Mexican diplomatic representative.
	mostlyfiction.com /latin/fuentes.htm (1343 words)

	Ilan Stavans- Carlos Fuentes and the Future
		According to Fuentes, by then the nation would be living under the totalitarian regime of a right-wing party that controlled just about everything, from the bureaucratic machinery to every citizen’s reproductive system.
		Fuentes, a master of the art of mythic writing, takes advantage of the anti-utopian literary tradition to warn against a troublesome future, but not one troublesome because of the effects of technological change.
		Verbal fireworks, misguided quotations, and an accumulation of cultural references allow Fuentes to depict the obvious inadequacies of the embryo to write, to tell, to be.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/61/stavans61art.htm (2233 words)

	Powell's Books - The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
		Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
		"Carlos Fuentes is perhaps the only living Latin-American writer who has it in him to do for his country what Euclides da Cunha did for Brazil in Os Sertoes, and to make the passion of the land's rebirth and repossession comprehensible to the outsider."
		Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, has received many awards for his accomplishments as a novelist, essayist, and commentator, among them the Cervantes Prize.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0374522839-3 (304 words)

	ACLU: A History of Ideological Exclusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1962, Fuentes was invited to debate the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs on the U.S. economic plan for Latin America.
		Fuentes was an outspoken opponent of ideological exclusion.
		He believed hearing other political perspectives was essential for the American public "to be involved and to evaluate the nature of these policies, if they are good or bad, or to vote them down through its representatives in Congress."
	www.aclu.org /SafeandFree/details/fuentes.html (96 words)

	Amazon.com: Aura: Bilingual Edition: Books: Carlos Fuentes,Lysander Kemp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A horror story that is mired in love and intrigue, Fuentes demonstrates his creative skills early on in his career, which only gets better with maturity as each forthcoming book uses denser and richer language.
		Fuentes is a high-profile, politically involved writer, but this novella has no overt political content, although Fuentes would say all writing is political.
		AURA by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Lysander Kemp, is a short read that I found wonderful and highly recommend.
	www.amazon.com /Aura-Carlos-Fuentes/dp/0374511713 (1632 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Years With Laura Díaz" by Carlos Fuentes
		Such is the case with Carlos Fuentes' "The Years With Laura Díaz," a sweeping historical saga that falls prey to its ambitions.
		The historical figures Díaz comes to know best are mostly minor political radicals, but their proximity to power allows Fuentes to explore the Mexican past through its revolutions, from the workers' revolts to the coups and crackdowns.
		Fuentes' Laura Díaz is an active player in her own life, rather than a character inevitably subject to the cyclical forces of history (a history, in García Márquez, countered by acts of imagination and wonder, a facet of that novel's greatness).
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/11/13/fuentes/index.html (846 words)

	Mexiko Lindo y Querido - Carlos Fuentes
		Carlos Fuentes ist am 11 November 1928 in Mexiko-Stadt geboren, studierte Rechtswissenschaften und ist einer der bekanntesten mexikanischen Schriftsteller.
		Fuentes war von 1975/76 mexikanischer Botschafter in Paris, später hatte er einen Lehrauftrag als Professor in Harvard.
		Heute gilt Fuentes als einer der größten lebenden Erzähler und er gehört zu den einflussreichsten Romanciers nicht nur Mexikos, sondern der gesamten lateinamerikanischen Literatur der Gegenwart.
	www.mexiko-lindo.de /article197.html (293 words)

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