Fuentes Carlos

Un cl sico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, que es a su vez una audaz exploraci n de las posibilidades de representaci n en la literatura, a trav s de la superposici n de niveles de tiempo, espacio y consciencia narrativos. «Las revoluciones las hacen los hombres de carne y hueso y no los santos, y todas acaban por crear una nueva casta privilegiada... En su lecho de muerte, durante su ltimo medio d a, el anciano y enfermo Artemio Cruz recuerda: no siempre fue ese triste saco de huesos y fermentos corporales; alguna vez fue joven, osado, vigoroso. Y tuvo ideales, sue os, fe. Para defender todo eso, incluso combati en una revoluci n. Mas la rapi a, la codicia y la corrupci n extinguieron su fuego y aniquilaron su esperanza. Tal vez por ello perdi a la nica mujer que de verdad lo am . Una reflexi n sobre el M xico surgido de la Revoluci n Mexicana, pero tambi n de cuestiones tan universales y permanentes como la soledad, el poder o el desamor. La cr tica ha dicho... «Excepcional, tanto en su forma de abarcar todo el espectro humano como en la s tira corrosiva y el di logo mordaz. -The New York Times Book Review «Carlos Fuentes organiz esta novela en trece cap tulos. En esas escalas, como si fuera un tr o de jazz, leemos -escuchamos- un ensamble a contratiempo que va y viene por la mente de un moribundo. Con esa estructura no convencional, la historia fluye -por distintas fugas- a trav s de seis d cadas del siglo XX mexicano. Desde el rural novecento y hasta la m s cosmopolita d cada de los a os sesenta, vemos a Artemio Cruz exhibiendo a un tipo que va en un ascenso p blico constante, pero con una historia interna desintegrada. -Antonio Valle, La Jornada ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In La muerte de Artemio Cruz we are present in the last moments of the life of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous death, but his will does not allow him to be defeated.

Del autor de Aura, La Silla del guila, La regi n m s transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz. Carlos Fuentes gan el Premio Pr ncipe de Asturias 1994, el Premio Cervantes 1987, el Premio Internacional Grinzane Cavour 1994, entre otras distinciones. Las culturas se fosilizan si est n aisladas, pero nacen o renacen en el contacto con otros hombres y mujeres, los hombres y mujeres de otra cultura, otro credo, otra raza. Si no reconocemos nuestra humanidad en los dem s, nunca la reconoceremos en nosotros mismos. De los espejos de obsidiana enterrados en la urbe totonaca de El Taj n a los espejos ib ricos de Cervantes y Vel zquez, el de la locura y el del asombro, un intercambio de reflejos culturales ha ido y venido de una a otra orilla del Atl ntico a lo largo de m s de quince a os; este ensayo cuenta esa historia, la nuestra. S lo nos vemos enteros en el espejo desenterrado de la identidad cuando aparecemos acompa ados del otro; entonces somos por fin capaces de mirar de cerca las consecuencias de nuestras acciones y convertir la experiencia en conocimiento. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this essay, the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes analyzes the search for Latin American identity. From the author of Aura, The Eagle's Throne, Where the Air Is Clear, The Death of Artemio Cruz. Carlos Fuentes won the 1994 Prince of Asturias Prize, the 1987 Cervantes Prize, the 1994 Grinzane Cavour International Prize, and many other distinctions. Cultures fossilize if they are isolated, but they are born or reborn upon contact with other men and women: men and women of another culture, another creed, another race. If we don't recognize our humanity in others, we will never recognize it in ourselves. From the obsidian mirrors buried in the Totonac city of El Taj n to the Iberian mirrors of Cervantes and Vel zquez; that of insanity and that of amazement; an exchange of cultural reflections has come and gone from one shore of the Atlantic to the other throughout more than fifteen years. This essay tells the story. We only see ourselves completely in the unearthed mirror of identity when we appear alongside another; then we are finally capable of examining the consequences of our actions and converting the experience into knowledge.

Los cuentos me salvaron de morir cuando era ni o ...] Mi padre me llevaba a la peque a biblioteca de los masones ingleses que trabajaban en la f brica de electricidad. All empec a leer cuentos, Grimm, Perrault... Y, m s tarde, con seis a os, Paul F val, Alejandro Dumas, Emilio Salgari, Zane Grey, James Oliver Curwood, Julio Verne, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, etc. Y todas esas lecturas me formaron el cerebro -Alejandro Jodorowsky-

A trav s de la vida ntima de una mujer y sus pasiones, esta novela narra una saga familiar entre mezclada con la historia cultural y pol tica de un pa s convulso donde todo parece estar gest ndose simult neamente. De Carlos Fuentes autor de Aura, La Silla del guila, La regi n m s transparente y La muerte de Artemio Cruz. Ganador del Premio Pr ncipe de Asturias 1994 y el Premio Cervantes 1987. En Los a os con Laura D az, Fuentes, como nunca antes, es fiel a su prop sito de describirnos el cruce de caminos donde coinciden la vida individual y la vida colectiva. La familia que formar C sima en Veracruz, casada con Felipe, cuya madre era francesa, estar integrada tambi n por otras tres mujeres: Hilda, Virginia y Leticia, la madre de Laura. En esta novela Carlos Fuentes narra una saga familiar entremezclada con la historia cultural y pol tica de un M xico convulso, donde todo parece estar gest ndose simult neamente. El clamor del tumulto que quiere cambiar el destino de M xico converge con la ruta colorida de un par de grandes de la pintura universal: Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera. Otros autores han opinado: Los a os con Laura D az emociona, conmueve, arranca carcajadas; adem s tiene ambici n y a su autor le sobra oficio para cumplir con ella - lvaro Enrigue, Letras Libres- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes's fictional world. Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes's first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Carlos Fuentes's richly woven narrative tapestry-filled with a multitude of dramatic scenes both witty, amusing, and heartbreaking-shows us this wonderful creature as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a son and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's repressive, corrupt regimes. In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to, and helped to affect, the course of history and has vindicated the aims and intentions of the highest art.

Carlos Fuentes examina la separaci n entre M xico y Estados Unidos con el cristal de la discriminaci n, el racismo, la violencia, pero tambi n la fuerza de la vida mexicana, que parece sobrevivir a todas las agresiones. En La frontera de cristal, Carlos Fuentes es el mismo narrador de sus mejores libros: agresivo, vital, poderoso. Encuentra todos los ngulos posibles en una historia, con una variante insospechada: la comicidad. Esta es una novela relatada a trav s de nueve cuentos que transcurren, de un lado y del otro, en las proximidades de la raya fronteriza entre M xico y Estados Unidos. M s all de lo inevitable, que suele presentarse en forma de discriminaci n, violencia y desamparo, los personajes que habitan estas p ginas encuentran material para los sue os y energ a para el humor, as sea tan s lo porque saben que la nica frontera real est entre el cuerpo y el alma. Carlos Fuentes reproduce la separaci n que se ha dado entre ambos pa ses a lo largo de 200 a os y la examina con el cristal de la discriminaci n, el racismo, la violencia, pero tambi n la fuerza de la vida mexicana, que parece sobrevivir a todas las agresiones. La cr tica ha opinado: A fuerza de contarnos, Carlos Fuentes nos vuelve indispensables y gracias a l somos reconocibles -Elena Poniatowska- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This novel portrays Carlos Fuentes' best; it is aggressive, sharp, and powerful. With penetrating humor and frank narrative, the nine stories (in this novel) depict the rift that has occurred between the U.S. and Mexico in the last two hundred years. But Fuentes also gives us an insight into the force of Mexican life and culture, and how it has been able to survive in spite of the injustice and corruption in Mexico that have caused so many to seek to immigrate.

"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1988, Dalkey Archive Press in 2004, now available again.

In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden--but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security--also named Adam--who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that he's letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers go free. Another unlikely snake is the little Boy-God who's started preaching in the street wearing a white tunic and stick-on wings, inspiring Adam's brother-in-law to give up his job writing soap operas to follow this junior deity and implore Adam to do the same. Even Elle, Adam's mistress, thinks the boy is important to their salvation--especially now that it seems the other Adam has put out a contract on Adam Gorozpe. To save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, perhaps Adam will indeed have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these snakes from his Mexican Eden.

Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what kind of world will he be delivered into? "Makesicko City," as the punning narrator calls it, is not doing well in this alternate, worst-case-scenario 1992. Politicians are selling pieces of their country to the United States. A black, acid rain falls relentlessly, forewarning of the even worse ecological catastrophes to come. Gangs of children, confined to the slums, terrorize their wealthy neighbors. A great novel of ideas and a work of aesthetic boldness, Christopher Unborn is a unique, and quite funny, work from one of the twentieth century's most respected authors.

Presents a fictional portrait of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, as played out in a Mexican dynasty led by a powerful oligarch with complex ties north of the border.

Contains five short stories. In the title story a loving and contented husband discovers the true nature of his marriage, as though he has walked through a mirror and found that the life held in the glass was not his own at all.

Set in South America between 1810 and 1830 - a time when Chile, Argentina, Peru and Mexico were all shaken by brutal revolutions to throw off Spanish rule. The narrator of the story is Manuel Varele who, with his friends, spend hours in the coffee houses. By the winner of the Romula Gallegos Prize.