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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.
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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."
With the practiced eye of a traveler at large, E. Shaskan Bumas
portrays characters struggling to define their relationships to
each other and to their time. Whether scientists or artisans, punks
or new-agers, single mothers or students, activists or children in
harm's way, Bumas's characters fill these stories with heart and
subversive humor. The Price of Tea in China depicts places as
far-flung as a Manhattan ghetto and a provincial Chinese city
through an exploration of human relationships that makes each
location both foreign and familiar. In "Flag of Fire", an American
teacher becomes caught up in the lives of students engaged in
China's pro-democracy movement. "Your Cordially Requested Presence"
reveals a man's humorous sufferings as he acts the part of fiance
for a lesbian friend at her cousin's wedding. "The Attraction to
Gravity" brings us a young man whose growing appreciation of his
girlfriend's small daughter is threatened by her father's
reappearance. In "Cupid's Carriers", a student chronicles college
life in the era of punk rock through a journal that takes on a life
of its own. In "Emerging", a neighborhood's web of inhabitants is
torn apart by a police riot, and in "Spare the Child", a man
describes the unplanned pregnancy of his girlfriend with biting
dislike.
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