Carlos Fuentes (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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In addition to his work as a novelist, Carlos Fuentes has cultivated short fiction throughout his career. His earliest work was a collection of short stories, Los días enmascarados (1954; the masked days); this volume and subsequent collections such as Cantar de ciegos (1964; songs of the blind) and Agua quemada (1980; Burnt Water, 1980) have been critically acclaimed. (Burnt Water, Fuentes’s first short-story collection to be translated into English, contains stories published in earlier collections as well as in...

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