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
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.
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.
I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
I have no literary fears.
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
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.