Framed by dying guy in hospital in 1960, apparently with his life flashing through his brains, at which points narrative descends to other dates. Narrative is formally complex, jumping not only from 1960 back to prior times, but within each analepsis (told in third person & past tense) including...
'Carlos Fuentes' like several other writers, has several times used the trope of putting in a fantastical social scenario at the core of the novel and work on it from there, exposing the underbelly of the society (or a part of it) as a whole. You have his own 'Christopher Unborn' and Saramago's s...
الآلهة مثل الرجال :يولدون ويموتون على صدر امرأة أول قراءة ل كارلوس فوينتس، ذبت بها للغاية، يحكي عن الشاب فيليب مونترو الذي يشده إعلان في جريدة يطلب شاب حسن المظهر يتقن اللغة الفرنسية و له إلمام بالتاريخ، لم يتخيل الشاب أن علومه و هواياته المتكدسة قد تكون محط اهتمام احدهم و التي ماكان هو ذاته يعرف...
Suppose your father is the black sheep in his Mexican bourgeois family and he marries a lower class woman, who becomes your mother. Then your father's sister, who has dutifully married a suitable but impotent man, decides to take you and raise you as her own, relegating your father to the backgro...
Sentire menzionare il nome di Carlos Fuentes Macías (Panamá, 11 novembre 1928 – Città del Messico, 15 maggio 2012) ricordo gli anni dal 2002 al 2004 e alla mente mi affiora un soggetto radicato alle proprie origini messicane. Un ex scrittore che nonostante per studio, esigenze di vita, capacità d...
This work is of interest from a historical view perspective. The campaign encompasses actually 2 endeavors: first the obvious historical independence of Latin America from Spain and the division of the new found territory into separate countries. The second quest is for the mental, physical, psyc...
Carlos Fuentes is perhaps Mexico's most celebrated writer and a voice of the people. From poetry to stories and essays, and a dozen novels, he writes of the passions and politics of a nation perpetually in turmoil. He even served as Ambassador to Paris, a time he eludes to fondly, before returnin...
"سال هایی با لائورا دیاز" نام رمانی طویل است به قلم کارلوس فوئنتس ، که در سال 2001 منتشر شده و اسداله امرایی آن را به فارسی ترجمه کرده است. فوئنتس با استفاده از کاراکتر "لائورا دیاز" و سیر زندگی او تصویری از تاریخ قرن 20 مکزیک را ارائه می دهد که در ضمن آن برخورد شخصیت ها با آرمان ها و هدف ها بسیا...
I'm stunned!I don't read poetry, I knew nothing about poems and poets. Yet I can identify poetic lines in every pages of this piece. Nope, not just regarding Inez herself, but Fuentes wrote everything from the language, the symphony, the war, even to the Nazi, poetically.Most condemned Hitler, bu...
It was the late dictator Porfirio Diaz who once enunciated the great theme of 20th Century Mexican literature: "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!" To an extent That few Norteamericanos realize, the interpenetration of Mexico and the United States in a strange kind of...
Le relazioni lontane sono quelle che intercorrono (intercorrono? magari in questo caso internuotano) fra Europa e America Latina, relative affinitá-divergenze e portati culturali che gravano sulle spalle degli europei in una certa maniera (la vergogna dello scempio compiuto non sta lí sotto il lo...