Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View

Published by University of Texas Press 1982

Carlos Fuentes

A Critical View

Edited by: Robert Brody and Charles Rossman

In the series Texas Pan American Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/710771

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About this book

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 González Echevarría, 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 Durán 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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Robert Brody is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, and Charles Rossman is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editors' Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
History and Myth in the Narrative of Carlos Fuentes Luis Leal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Los dias enmascarados and Cantor de ciegos: Reading the Stories and Reading the Books John S. Brushwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
The Making of La region mas transparente: 1949-1974 Richard M. Reeve Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Citizen Kane: A Comparative Analysis Lanin A. Gyurko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Theme and System in Carlos Fuentes' Aura Jaime Alazraki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
The Wounded Vision: Aum, Zona sagrada, and Cumpleanos Frank Dauster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
A Change of Skin and the Shaping of a Mexican Time Malva E. Filer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
On Becoming Velazquez: Carlos Fuentes7 The Hydra Head Mary E. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Forking Paths, Infinite Novels, Ultimate Narrators Margaret Sayers Peden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Dolls and Puppets as Wish-Fulfillment Symbols in Carlos Fuentes Gloria Durán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Carlos Fuentes as Dramatist Merlin H. Forster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Carlos Fuentes as an Art Critic Manuel Durán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Some Remarks on the Literary Criticism of Carlos Fuentes George Gordon Wing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 230

eBook

Published: February 20, 2014
ISBN: 9780292762312