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    This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life

    By Carlos Fuentes

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    'This collection examines the people, places and ideas that have shaped Fuentes's life ... stimulating and provoking' - Sunday Times

    'A characteristically dazzling display of Fuentes' erudition and of a remarkable life ... The book defies categorization ... There are flashes of his soul' - Financial Times

    'Magnificent ... an essay on children made me weep as I read it ... he is a marvellous novelist' - Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph
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    Carlos Fuentes is Mexico's most admired novelist, and this is his manifesto, and memoir, offering a rare and wonderful insight into the mind of a great writer.


    This I Believe is an A to Z of the things that he loves and believes in. In a series of inspired meditations and polemics, he embraces his subjects from 'Balzac' and 'Beauty' to 'Sex' and 'Shakespeare'. The essays are woven together with the familiar Fuentes themes of politics, time and language, and through them runs the vein of his personal journey, his views on love, sex, women, friendship and family. From 'Amor' to 'Zürich', this is a collection of thoughts that is both witty and profoundly searching.
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    'Fuentes certainly dazzles; he cites aptly, and scatters one-liners. As you read him, you sense genuine mental alertness and snappy judgements. There's a touch of the guru in this latest book, revealing our world to us' - Independent

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 16, 2012
    ISBN9781408837627
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    This I Believe: An A-Z of a Writer's Life
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    Carlos Fuentes

    Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) was one of the most influential and celebrated voices in Latin American literature. He was the author of 24 novels, including Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo and Terra Nostra, and also wrote numerous plays, short stories, and essays. He received the 1987 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. Fuentes was born in Panama City, the son of Mexican parents, and moved to Mexico as a teenager. He served as an ambassador to England and France, and taught at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia. He died in Mexico City in 2012.

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      A memoir-like immersion in literature and art, this is a personal view of life art and reading. I find this book by one of the great novelists of the twentieth century to be a useful adjunct to my reading. It is enjoyable on its own for its inspiration and thought-provoking essays.