Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the
translation of his major works into English and other languages,
his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico
and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now each
new novel stimulates popular and scholarly reviews in periodicals
from Mexico City and Buenos Aires to Paris and New York.
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale
examination in English of this major writer's work. The range and
diversity of this critical view are remarkable and reflect similar
characteristics in the creative work of Carlos Fuentes, a man of
formidable intellectual energy and curiosity.
The whole of Fuentes' work is encompassed by Luis Leal as he
explores history and myth in the writer's narrative. Insightful new
views of single works are provided by other well-known scholars,
such as Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, writing on Fuentes'
extraordinary Terra Nostra, and Margaret Sayers Peden, exploring
Distant Relations, for which she served as authorized translator.
Here too are fresh approaches to Fuentes' other novels, among them
Where the Air Is Clear, Aura, and The Hydra Head, as well as an
examination by John Brushwood of the writer's short fiction and a
look by Merlin Forster at Fuentes the playwright. Lanin Gyurko
reaches outside Fuentes' canon for his fascinating study of the
influence of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane on The Death of Artemio
Cruz. Manuel Duran and George Wing consider Fuentes in his role as
critic of both literature and art.
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View has been prepared with the
writer's many English-speaking readers in mind. Quotations are most
frequently from standard, readily available English translations of
Fuentes' works. A valuable chronology of the writer's life rounds
off the volume.
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