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Fuentes, Carlos

Born Nov. 11, 1928, in Mexico City. Mexican writer.

Fuentes was educated as a lawyer. He published the short-story collection Masked Days in 1954. His novels Where the Air is Clear (1958), The Good Conscience (1959), and The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962; Russian translation, 1967) are devoted to recent Mexican history. These works, together with those of J. Rulfo, represent a new stage in the development of realist prose in Mexico. In the novels A Change of Skin (1967) and Birthday (1975), Fuentes added avant-garde techniques to his artistic repertoire. Fuentes has also published a play called All the Cats Are Gray (1970; Russian translation, 1972) and a collection of critical essays under the title The New Hispano-American Novel (1969).

WORKS

In Russian translation:
Spokoinaia sovest’. Smert’ Artemio Krusa. Povesti i rasskazy. Moscow, 1974.

REFERENCES

Kuteishchikova, V. N. Meksikanskii roman. Moscow, 1971.
Terterian, I. A. “V poiskakh formuly,” Voprosy literatury, 1974, no. 1.
Kuteishchikova, V., and L. Ospovat. Novyi latino-amerikanskii roman. Moscow, 1976.

V. N. KUTEISHCHIKOVA

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Before is a small gem that brings to mind two other gems of Mexican literature: Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo and Carlos Fuentes's Aura.

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A traves de sus paginas, el lector vera pasar a multitud de intelectuales, desde Justo Sierra y Ezequiel Chavez hasta Jose Emilio Pacheco, pasando por Felix Palavicini, Jose Vasconcelos, Martin Luis Guzman, Daniel Cosio Villegas y Carlos Fuentes, entre muchos mas, con una atencion especial en Alfonso Reyes y en la presencia de los intelectuales espanoles exiliados en Mexico a partir de finales de los anos treinta.

Garciadiego, Javier. Autores, editoriales, instituciones y libros. Estudios de historia intelectual

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