Topic: Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes, one of the leading figures in the magic realism of Latin American literature, is coming to McGill this week. Fuentes will be the...

Personalities urge new ways to tackle drug abuse

A group set up by former Latin American leaders and personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday recommended that consumers of illicit drugs should not be treated as criminals.The Global Commission on Drug Policies felt that the prevalent repressive approach ...

'Destiny and Desire,' by Carlos Fuentes: review

0 View Larger Image Destiny and Desire By Carlos Fuentes; translated by Edith Grossman (Random House; 432 pages; $27) . Like the elephant in D.H ...

Character of the city

Mexico City is a metropolis of contrasts, a monument to a proud and industrious country also faced with many problems. " In the late 20th century the writer Jonathan Kandell retorted, "To its detractors (and even to a few admirers), Mexico City is ...
"We arrived in the middle of the emergency and we have seen 16 dead. The 22 injured suffered burns and are receiving treatment," rescue official Carlos Fuentes told AFP.A police spokeswoman, Violeta Polanco, had earlier said the death toll could reach ...
In the western world reigns a judeo-christian conception of love. At the center of such a dilemma is the underlying belief that true Love is not of the flesh but of the spirit, and the realm of the spirit is elsewhere, with ...
In The Campaign, Carlos Fuentes presents an extremely detailed view of Latin America during its revolutionary period beginning in 1810. Fuentes, with the help of Manuel Varela, the narrator and Baltasar's friend, describes the life of Baltasar Bustos during this revolutionary ...
A stomach problem forced Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes to abandon plans to give a lecture in Geneva on Thursday, Mexico's embassy here said, saying he was otherwise "in perfect health".Earlier, a UN official in Geneva said he had been taken ...
A stomach problem forced Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes to abandon plans to give a lecture in Geneva on Thursday, Mexico's embassy here said, saying he was otherwise "in perfect health".Earlier, a UN official in Geneva said he had been taken ...

Postmodern literature

Latin- American literature blossomed and received international acclaim in the 1960s and 1970s with the so-called boom in the novel, a movement signaled by the publication of major works by the Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Mexican Carlos Fuentes, the Peruvian Mario ...