Bøger af Carlos Fuentes

Un clásico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, que es a su vez una audaz exploración de las posibilidades de representación en la literatura, a través de la superposición de niveles de tiempo, espacio y consciencia narrativos. «Las revoluciones las hacen los hombres de carne y hueso y no los santos, y todas acaban por crear una nueva casta privilegiada...» En su lecho de muerte, durante su último medio día, el anciano y enfermo Artemio Cruz recuerda: no siempre fue ese triste saco de huesos y fermentos corporales; alguna vez fue joven, osado, vigoroso. Y tuvo ideales, sueños, fe. Para defender todo eso, incluso combatió en una revolución. Mas la rapiña, la codicia y la corrupción extinguieron su fuego y aniquilaron su esperanza. Tal vez por ello perdió a la única mujer que de verdad lo amó. Una reflexión sobre el México surgido de la Revolución Mexicana, pero también de cuestiones tan universales y permanentes como la soledad, el poder o el desamor. La crítica ha dicho... «Excepcional, tanto en su forma de abarcar todo el espectro humano como en la sátira corrosiva y el diálogo mordaz.» -The New York Times Book Review«Carlos Fuentes organizó esta novela en trece capítulos. En esas escalas, como si fuera un trío de jazz, leemos -escuchamos- un ensamble a contratiempo que va y viene por la mente de un moribundo. Con esa estructura no convencional, la historia fluye -por distintas fugas- a través de seis décadas del siglo XX mexicano. Desde el rural novecento y hasta la más cosmopolita década de los años sesenta, vemos a Artemio Cruz exhibiendo a un tipo que va en un ascenso público constante, pero con una historia interna desintegrada.» -Antonio Valle, La JornadaENGLISH DESCRIPTION In La muerte de Artemio Cruz we are present in the last moments of the life of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous death, but his will does not allow him to be defeated.

¿Qué pasiones o ideales mueven al ser humano y lo arrastran hasta su propia muerte? Esta parece ser la pregunta que se hace Carlos Fuentes al reflexionar acerca de la vida y la muerte de la actriz Diana Soren.Tan solitaria como bella, tan fuerte como vulnerable, Diana Soren es una mujer que encierra en su persona, y en el apasionado episodio erótico que vive con un escritor mexicano, los ideales de toda una generación, la de los años sesenta, cuando las ilusiones de una década se resistían a morir.En Diana o la cazadora solitaria, Carlos Fuentes resume la historia de toda una época, por medio de la revisión nostálgica de su breve y desgraciado romance con la actriz Jean Seberg."Quiero ser muy franco en este relato y no guardarme nada. Puedo herirme a mí mismo cuanto guste. No tengo, en cambio, derecho de herir a nadie que no sea yo, a menos, en todo caso, de que primero me entierre yo mismo el puñal que, amorosamente, acabo compartiendo con otra. Señalo, de arranque, los temores que me asaltan. Trato de justificar sexo con literatura y literatura con sexo. Pero el escritor —amante o autor— al cabo desaparece. Si grita, se desintegra. Si suspira, se funde. Hay que ser consciente de esto antes de afirmar, por encima de todas las cosas, que la vida nunca es generosa dos veces." —Carlos FuentesENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThis is an exploration of love, lust, and betrayal. Mexico's preeminent novelist presents a poignant story of bittersweet love.   On New Year's Eve in 1969, a novelist in his forties meets the beautiful movie actress Diana Soren at a party and is fascinated by her oddly elusive charm. But in this novel from Carlos Fuentes, his infatuation turns into doomed pursuit as the fleeting object of his desire spurns him, and he is forced to reconsider the foundations of his life as a writer.   Diana, as the central character, is an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and a casualty of her own times and beauty. Part novel, part expose, Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone is a stirring portrait of a passionate affair amid the cultural chaos of the 1960s and 1970s.

Here is a true literary event-the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world's great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle's Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and treacherous betrayal.In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is swift. Concocting a "glitch” in a Florida satellite, America's president cuts Mexico's communications systems-no phones, faxes, or e-mails-and plunges the country into an administrative nightmare of colossal proportions.Now, despite the motto that "a Mexican politician never puts anything in writing,” people have no choice but to communicate through letters, which Fuentes crafts with a keen understanding of man's motives and desires. As the blizzard of activity grows more and more complex, political adversaries come out to prey. The ineffectual president, his scheming cabinet secretary, a thuggish and ruthless police chief, and an unscrupulous, sensual kingmaker are just a few of the fascinating characters maneuvering and jockeying for position to achieve the power they all so desperately crave.

From Mexico's preeminent man of letters, ?a Balzacian novel in nine masterly stories? (Vanity Fair) that explores the ?uneven and painful meshing of two North american cultures? (Washington Post Book World). A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Translated by Alfred Mac Adam.

In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer, his celebrated Harvard University commencement address, and his trenchant examinations of Cervantes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Borges.

The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak; his uncle is powerful, yet his actions are inconsistent with his professed beliefs. Jaime's struggle to emerge as a man with a "good conscience" forms the theme of the book: can a rebel correct the evils of an established system and at the same time retain the integrity of his principles?

Romanen ser det tjuende århundret gjennom øynene til en kvinne som blir like mye en del av vår historie, som av den meksikanske historien hun observerer og er med på å skape. Laura Díaz blir født i 1898, og blir gift, får barn, er mektige menns elskerinne, og før hun dør i 1972 blir hun hedret som en politisk engasjert kunstner. Hun lever et lykkelig liv til tross for de tragedier og tap hun opplever.

Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva, are brought together in a passion by Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust. Meanwhile, the mysterious tale of Neh-el and Ah-nel - the first lovers in human history - unfolds, seductively echoing the Faustian pact of love an death. Linking these narratives is a beautiful crystal seal that belongs to Atlan-Ferrara, its meaning an obsession and its power an enigma.

In The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes brings the Mexico of 1916 uncannily to life. This novel is wise book, full of toughness and humanity and is without question one of the finest works of modern Latin American fiction.One of Fuentes's greatest works, the novel tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American writer, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers, particularly his encounter with General Tomas Arroyo. In the end, the incompatibility of the two countries (or, paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both men, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of two cultures in conflict.

Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. That child is the narrator of this passionate, savage novel by one of the world's preeminent writers.

Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world - the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity - stories to break the stand-off silence with a victory shout, to shatter at last the crystal frontier.

The latest work from the grand master of Mexican fiction.

"Years With Laura Diaz" is a heartbreaking love story.

An exploration of love, lust and betrayal.

Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile club de France as an elderly Count tells a story to the unnamed narrator. But the book does not remain here in the cafe, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the story moves across time and space, from Latin America to Europe, from generation to generation. We hear of Hugo, a noted Mexican archeologist, and of his young son, Victor, who were once the Count's houseguests. He tells of their time in France, of their complicated pasts and their uncertain relationships. This is a story of lost memory and failed promises, one about the past's unbending influence on the present. Distant Relations is an ambitious novel whose tale of confused familial relations explodes into one about the conflict between the Old World and the New.

In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden-but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security-also named Adam-who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that he's letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers go free. Another unlikely snake is the little Boy-God who's started preaching in the street wearing a white tunic and stick-on wings, inspiring Adam's brother-in-law to give up his job writing soap operas to follow this junior deity and implore Adam to do the same. Even Elle, Adam's mistress, thinks the boy is important to their salvation-especially now that it seems the other Adam has put out a contract on Adam Gorozpe. To save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, perhaps Adam will indeed have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these snakes from his Mexican Eden.

A critical edition of Carlos Fuentes' 1962 novel, Aura, accompanied by an introduction and notes on the text. -- .

A dazzling political novel of high artifice and intelligent comedy to make Machiavelli blush

An A-Z of the things that Carlos Fuentes loves and passionately believes in: it is a kind of manifesto, but one that also draws on key moments in his life

Discusses the origins and nature of the tumultuous events that have transformed Mexican politics and society. The rebellion in Chiapas, a rash of assassinations, the break between Presidents Salinas and Zedillo, the continual struggle for democratic self-rule, this title addresses these and other developments.

Plays by five of the most famous Latin-American authors to have emerged over the last 30 years.

A magical story of love and art, life and death.