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Carlos Fuentes
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo’s amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life.
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An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched.
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Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say. Milan Kundera
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Roberto Sanchez Benitez
This book analyzes the work of Carlos Fuentes, one of the most widely recognized Mexican novelists. A lucid awareness of national and Ibero-American cultural and historical problems, his reflections on…
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Raymond Leslie Williams
In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes’ work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra.
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A critical review of the work features the contributions of Lanin A. Gyurko, Richard J. Walter, Santiago Tejerina-Canal, and other scholars, discussing the themes and characters of the novel.
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Van D'elden
In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes’s vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and…
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer’s work.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes’s The Old Gringo, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Steven Boldly
Examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes’ work.
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An exploration of love, lust and betrayal. The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and…
Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world - the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity - stories to break the stand-off…
The latest work from the grand master of Mexican fiction.
Modern master Fuentes offers profound insights and personal reflections on wide-ranging topics from amor and children to revolution, Shakespeare, and more.
Jaime Cevallos esta al final de su adolescencia; pronto debera decidir el rumbo que tomara su vida. Por lo pronto, su percepcion del mundo es que no tiene lugar definido…
A traves de la vida intima de una mujer y sus pasiones, esta novela narra una saga familiar entre mezclada con la historia cultural y politica de un pais convulso…
La Ciudad de Mexico -espacio mitico, ambiguo y luminoso- es el escenario del presente volumen y el protagonista velado de los cuatro relatos que lo conforman. Un pequeno paraplejico, un…
A unique history of the social, political, and economic forces that created the remarkable culture that stretches from the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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An inflamed revolutionary democrat and the son of a wealthy Argentine ranch owner, Baltasar Bustos, kidnaps the child of the Marquise de Cabra in 19th century South America.
Two narratives twine through this superb novel. One introduces Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great passion, Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva; the other is a mysterious…
Un clasico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, que es a su vez una audaz exploracion de las posibilidades de representacion en la literatura, a traves de la superposicion…
Obra inedita de Carlos Fuentes en la que retrata los diferentes personajes a los que conocio y que influyeron en su vida. El diplomatico y escritor mexicano deja un testimonio…
Cine y gran literatura en una obra inedita de Carlos Fuentes
Esta es la historia de una relacion personal con el cine. Carlos Fuentes cuenta como fueron sus primeros acercamientos…
Edicion definitiva, revisada por su autor, de la gran novela urbana de la literatura mexicana.
Preparada por la Real Academia Espanola y la Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Espanola.
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In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning…
Collection of classic Mexican and Iberoamerican CD audio books. Read by their original authors, or by other famous writers when that has been impossiblem the collection takes pride in using…
En este volumen se publican tres cuentos ineditos: El robot sacramentado , Un fantasma tropical y Pantera en jazz , que se publico en una revista literaria mexicana en 1948…
The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes’s second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world’s richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has…
Fuentes gives readers a richly painted portrait of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of Laura Daz–a woman who becomes a part of the Mexican history she observes…
After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his…
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…
Tres guiones para dos novelas de Juan Rulfo, escritos por Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes y Carlos Velo, con participacion de Roberto Gavaldon y Manuel Barbachano. Investigacion y textos de…
Interweaving politics, history, and the mysterious death of writer Ambrose Bierce, Carlos Fuentes’ new novel is a powerful love story set within the rebel army of Pancho Villa during the…
Carlos Fuentes examina la separacion entre Mexico y Estados Unidos con el cristal de la discriminacion, el racismo, la violencia, pero tambien la fuerza de la vida mexicana, que parece…
A Study Guide for Carlos Fuentes’s Where the Air Is Clear, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis…
Novela de gran intensidad tematica, esta centrada en la reflexion sobre el Mexico surgido de la Revolucion, pero tambien analiza, con amargura, cuestiones tan universales y permanentes como la soledad…
Robust, unbeatable, and full of virtue, Pizarro went from militant communism to becoming a guerrilla soldier, from there to amnesty, and later went on to become a candidate for president…
Hay un vampiro en la ciudad de Mexico. Necesita tu sangre. Quiere tu vida. Desea a las personas que amas. Y no te quitara solo eso.
?Acaso no es la…
Situada en un momento historico fascinante, Gringo viejo aborda temas como la muerte, el intercambio cultural y, sobre todo, la identidad mexicana.
Un fulgurante bestseller mexicano en Estados Unidos, Gringo…
Totalidad e instantaneidad son las caracteristicas que Fuentes ilumina del Tiempo mexicano. Son las antipodas de su propia obra. - Pedro Angel Palou, Revista de la Universidad.
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ElDefensor de la Fe no puede descansar aun: esta obligado a llevar la cruz a esos infieles…?podra gobernar, al fin, un mundojusto y libre?
Felipe II, el Defensor…
Arranged alphabetically from Amore to Zurich, this is a marvelous inner journey with a great writer. In it we find reflections on the curses and blessings of globalization; a fond…
Los personajes de los cuentos de El naranjo arriesgan la vida y sufren injusticias sin llegar a satisfacer sus ambiciones: un marinero portugues que lanza una botella al mar, un…
?Que pasiones o ideales mueven al ser humano y lo arrastran hasta su propia muerte? Esta parece ser la pregunta que se hace Carlos Fuentes al reflexionar acerca de la…
