Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías audio was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz, Aura, Terra Nostra, The Old Gringoand Christopher Unborn. In his obituary, the New York Times described him as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1928
CityPanama City, Panama
CountryMexico
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.