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A Very Mexican Christmas (Hardcover)
Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Amparo Davila, Sandra Cisneros, Carmen Boullosa, …
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Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated
journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. These
passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and
key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the
complex personal life of this remarkable Mexican artist. The
170-page journal contains the artist's thoughts, poems, and
dreams-many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband,
artist Diego Rivera-along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor
illustrations. The text entries, written in Frida's round, full
script in brightly colored inks, make the journal as captivating to
look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist's
political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her
enormous courage in the face of more than 35 operations to correct
injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of 18. This
intimate portal into her life is sure to fascinate fans of the
artist, art historians, and women's culturalists alike.
Mariano Azuela, the first of the novelists of the Revolution, was
born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied
medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he
began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career
early; in 1896 he published Impressions of a Student in a weekly of
Mexico City. This was followed by numerous sketches and short
stories, and in 1911 by his first novel, Andres Perez, maderista.
Like most of the young Liberals, he supported Francisco I. Madero's
uprising, which overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, and in
1911 was made Director of Education of the State of Jalisco. After
Madero's assassination, he joined the army of Pancho Villa as
doctor, and his knowledge of the Revolution was acquired at
firsthand. When the counterrevolutio-nary forces of Victoriano
Huerta were temporarily triumphant, he emigrated to El Paso, Texas,
where in 1915 he wrote The Underdogs (Los de abajo), which did not
receive general recognition until 1924, when it was hailed as the
novel of the Revolution.
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Old Gringo (Paperback)
Carlos Fuentes
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One of Carlos Fuentes's greatest works, "The Old Gringo" tells the
story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and
journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among
Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General
Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries
(or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel
that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in
conflict.
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. his passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
Conceived exactly nine months before the five-hundredth
anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World, the narrator
of Christopher Unborn spends the novel waiting to be born. But what
kind of world will he be delivered into? "Makesicko City," as the
punning narrator calls it, is not doing well in this alternate,
worst-case-scenario 1992. Politicians are selling pieces of their
country to the United States. A black, acid rain falls
relentlessly, forewarning of the even worse ecological catastrophes
to come. Gangs of children, confined to the slums, terrorize their
wealthy neighbors. A great novel of ideas and a work of aesthetic
boldness, Christopher Unborn is a unique, and quite funny, work
from one of the twentieth century's most respected authors.
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper
magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike
flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes
manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling
inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz's heroic
campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless
climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps
Fuentes's masterpiece, "The Death of Artemio Cruz "is a haunting
voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
Carlos Fuentes, born in Panama in 1928, has received many awards
for his accomplishments as a novelist, essayist, and commentator,
among them the Cervantes Prize. He is the author of more than
twenty books, including "The Old Gringo "and "The Eagle's Throne.
"He divides his time between Mexico City and London. Hailed as a
masterpiece upon its original publication in 1962, "The Death of
Artemio Cruz" is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of
modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and
its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have warranted this new
translation by Alfred MacAdam.
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper
magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike
flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes
manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling
inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz's heroic
campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless
climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. As in all his
fiction, but perhaps most powerfully in this book, Fuentes is a
passionate guide to the ironies of Mexican history, the burden of
its past, and the anguish of its present. "This is more than a
retranslation of a masterpiece. It amounts to a restoration: here
is the magnificent book that Fuentes wrote originally, superbly
rendered by Alfred Mac Adam into an English version that precisely
meshes with Fuentes's Spanish."--Douglas Day "This is more than a
retranslation of a masterpiece. It amounts to a restoration: here
is the magnificent book that Fuentes wrote originally, superbly
rendered by Alfred Mac Adam into an English version that precisely
meshes with Fuentes's Spanish."--Douglas Day
"Remarkable, in the scope of the human drama it pictures, the
corrosive satire and sharp dialogue."--Mildred Adams, "The New York
Times Book Review
""Carlos Fuentes is perhaps the only living Latin-American writer
who has it in him to do for his country what Euclides da Cunha did
for Brazil in "Os Sertoes," and to make the passion of the land's
rebirth and repossession comprehensible to the outsider."--Anthony
West, "The New Yorker
""First translated into English more than a quarter-century ago,
Fuentes's acclaimed novel about modern Mexico has since gone
through nearly 30 printings. Despite its popularity, the original
English version often was unclear, obscuring Fuentes's language and
intent. MacAdam's meticulous new rendering gives the
English-reading public a fresh slant on the fictional Cruz, a
newspaper owner and land baron. The novel opens with Cruz on his
deathbed, and plunges us into his thoughts as he segues from the
past to his increasingly disoriented present. Drawn as a tragic
figure, Cruz fights bravely during the Mexican Revolution but in
the process loses his idealism--and the only woman who ever loved
him. He marries the daughter of a hacienda owner and, in the
opportunistic, postwar climate, he uses her family connections and
money to amass an ever-larger fortune. Cocky, audacious, corrupt,
Cruz, on another level, represents the paradoxes of recent Mexican
history. Written before Fuentes's masterpieces "A Change of Skin"
and "Terra Nostra," this novel, with its freewheeling experimental
prose and psychological exploration, anticipates many of the
author's later themes."--"Publishers Weekly"
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4:56 - Poems (Paperback)
Carlos Fuentes Lemus; Edited by E. Shaskan Bumas; Afterword by Juan Goytisolo
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These poems by Carlos Fuentes Lemus (1973-1999), son of the
author of Terra Nostra and Christopher Unborn, are an introduction
to the unique voice of a sensitive but unsentimental young poet who
became aware of his mortality at a very early age. A hemophiliac
who as a child contracted HIV from contaminated blood products, he
struggled to come to terms with his condition through the practice
of art while paying homage to those artists from the Western canon
(and from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) whose work inspired and
shaped his own, such as Keats, Van Gogh, Wilde, Rimbaud, Schiele,
Kerouac, Elvis, Hendrix, and Dylan. 4:56's heartbreaking "songs and
visions" record his fleeting passage through our world.From the
Afterword by Juan Goytisolo: "Beautiful, startling lines, without
the least self-complacency, imbued with a hidden and unsettling
pain. I have always been enchanted by the magic of English poetry,
and its ability to express more in fewer words than can other
languages that I know. Carlos Fuentes Lemus moved within its sphere
almost on tiptoe, oblivious to any rhetoric and easy
sentimentalism, with the delicacy and weightlessness with which he
fleetingly traced his path through life."
On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist
Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on
the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social
strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He
reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours
based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows
humor, the novelist and the philosopher unflinchingly tell the
story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism,
terror, and retrenchment: a story of love, friendship, family,
commitment, passion, corruption, betrayal, violence, and hope.
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 telling of the first encounter in human history between
a man and a woman. Berlioz's music for"The Damnation of
Faust"brings Gabriel and Inez together, while the emerging love of
neh-el and ah-nel--the original lovers--echoes the Faustian pact of
love and death. Linking these narratives is a beautiful crystal
seal that belongs to Atlan-Ferrara, its meaning an enigma that
obsesses him. And like the light refracted through the seal, these
stories begin in prehistory and spiral out into infinity.
In"Inez," we find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and
realist powers. This profound and beautiful work confirms his
standing as one of the world's pre-eminent novelist.
A radiant family saga set in a century of Mexican history, by one
of the world's greatest writers.
Carlos Fuentes's hope-filled new novel sees the twentieth century
through the eyes of Laura D'az, a woman who becomes as much a part
of our history as of the Mexican history she observes and helps to
create. Born in 1898, this extraordinary woman grows into a wife
and mother, becomes the lover of great men, and, before her death
in 1972, is celebrated as a politically committed artist. A
complicated and alluring heroine, she lives a happy life despite
the tragedies and losses she experiences, for she has borne witness
to great changes in her country's life, and she has loved and
understood with unflinching honesty.
In his most important novel in decades, Carlos Fuentes has created
a world filled with brilliantly colored scenes and heartbreaking
dramas. The result is a novel of subtle, penetrating insight and
immense power.
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,
el poder o el desamor.
Carlos Fuentes's new novel concerns people, rich and poor, who all have something to do with the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful business tycoon of Northern Mexico who successfully exploits his connections to the United States. Barroso controls the fate of strangers as well as family members, and his decisions -- whether to marry his son to his goddaughter and future mistress, whether to sponsor a young gay medical student for his studies at Cornell, or whether to fly weekend janitors to New York City to avoid American labor costs -- carry long-term effects for anyone within his web. Fuentes mingles generations and classes in this memorable novel, vividly illuminating the cultural conflict that rages between Mexico and America. In extraordinary prose, in the experience of love, of loneliness, of heartbreak and redemption, the dramas that ensue epitomize the strange, invisible, dangerous frontier that divides us.
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 as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Borges.
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 been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak; his uncle is powerful, yet his actions are inconsistent with his professed beliefs. Jaime's struggle to emerge as a man with a "good conscience" forms the theme of the book: can a rebel correct the evils of an established system and at the same time retain the integrity of his principles?
Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of
the tumultuous events that have recently transformed Mexican
politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of
assassinations, the break between Presidents Salinas and Zedillo,
the continual struggle for democratic self-rule: These and other
developments are addressed by one of Mexico's wisest, most
influential commentators.
In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the García Márquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, in a colleague's cellar, the Universe. Here is the haunting shades of Juan Rulfo, the astonishing anxiety puzzles of Julio Cortázar, the disquieted domesticity of Clarice Lispector. Provocative, powerful, immensely engaging, The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories showcases the ingenuity, diversity, and continuing excellence of a vast and vivid literary tradition.
Here is a true literary event-the long-awaited new novel by Carlos
Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a
farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics,
The Eagle's Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story
of international intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and
treacherous betrayal.
In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security
Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against
the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay
OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is swift. Concocting a "glitch" in
a Florida satellite, America's president cuts Mexico's
communications systems-no phones, faxes, or e-mails-and plunges the
country into an administrative nightmare of colossal proportions.
Now, despite the motto that "a Mexican politician never puts
anything in writing," people have no choice but to communicate
through letters, which Fuentes crafts with a keen understanding of
man's motives and desires. As the blizzard of activity grows more
and more complex, political adversaries come out to prey. The
ineffectual president, his scheming cabinet secretary, a thuggish
and ruthless police chief, and an unscrupulous, sensual kingmaker
are just a few of the fascinating characters maneuvering and
jockeying for position to achieve the power they all so desperately
crave.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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