Fuentes, Carlos (Vol. 8) - Fuentes, Carlos 1928–

Fuentes, Carlos 1928–

Fuentes is a Mexican novelist, playwright, short story writer, and critic. An internationally acclaimed author, he has proven to be an erudite and highly innovative writer, with the potential to be one of the great writers of the twentieth century. His major drawback, giving some critics reason to pause, is his cosmopolitanism, which can cause his writing to appear too facile or even slick. (See also CLC, Vol. 3, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 69-72.)

The goddesses of myth have had two faces: mother earth, the mother goddess, the creative, on the one side; the seductive devourer and destroyer of men on the other…. [For] Carlos Fuentes, woman is always the second aspect of this duality. Woman is the destroyer, and love is a kind of death.

For Fuentes, love is abnormal, a violation of the innocence of man. His stories are filled with incestuous unions or the desire for them … with endless reworkings and...

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