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
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.
It was close to being ready around Christmas break. Then we started looking for the first big invitational to throw it, but we always had to look at the team score. It was hard to fit it in at the right time.
I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.
This kid, in club, competed a triple full. She has room to grow. It's exciting to see. She's just hit the tip of the iceberg. She's highly motivated and she has no fear when she does high-level skills.