Carlos Fuentes
Born 1928 · Died 2012
Quotes
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
p. 27 “Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."”
About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he prais “The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”
Describing a Mexican baroque church “What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
"To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.
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Books by Carlos Fuentes in order
Books by Carlos Fuentes in the order they were published, from Where the Air Is Clear (1960) to Nietzsche on His Balcony (2016).
- 1Where the Air Is Clear
Where the Air Is Clear1960 - 2Aura
Aura1962 - 3La Muerte De Artemio Cruz
La Muerte De Artemio Cruz1962 - 4A Change of Skin
A Change of Skin1968 - 5Cuerpos y ofrendas
Cuerpos y ofrendas1972 - 6Terra Nostra
Terra Nostra1975 - 7Distant Relations
Distant Relations1983 - 8The Old Gringo
The Old Gringo1985 - 9Christopher Unborn
Christopher Unborn1987 - 10Myself with Others
Myself with Others1988 - 11Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins
Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins1991 - 12The Buried Mirror
The Buried Mirror1992 - 13Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone
Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone1995 - 14El espejo enterrado
El espejo enterrado1997 - 15The Crystal Frontier
The Crystal Frontier1997 - 16The Years with Laura Díaz
The Years with Laura Díaz2000 - 17Inez
Inez2001 - 18The Diary of Frida Kahlo
The Diary of Frida Kahlo2005 - 19The Eagle's Throne
The Eagle's Throne2006 - 20Destiny and Desire
Destiny and Desire2011 - 21Vlad
Vlad2012 - 22Nietzsche on His Balcony
Nietzsche on His Balcony2016