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" The writings of Carlos Fuentes / "
Raymond Leslie Williams.
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BL
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964170
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b718540
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| Main Entry
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Williams, Raymond L.
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| Title & Author
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The writings of Carlos Fuentes /\ Raymond Leslie Williams.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Austin :: University of Texas Press,, 1996.
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| Series Statement
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Texas Pan American series
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xv, 185 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0292735898
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: 029279097X
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: 9681655214
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: 9780292735897
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: 9780292790971
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: 9789681655211
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. I. An Intellectual Biography: The Journey to El Escorial and Terra Nostra -- pt. II. Rereading Terra Nostra -- pt. III. Rereading Fuentes -- Appendix I: La Edad del Tiempo: An Interview with Fuentes -- Appendix II: "La Edad del Tiempo."
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Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and on those elsewhere in the world. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them the Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes of short stories, numerous essays on literary, cultural, and political topics, and some theater. In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes' work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra. He opens with a biography of Fuentes that links his works to his intellectual life, a life that has been centrally concerned with finding and defining the source and character of Latin American culture. The heart of the study is Williams' extensive reading of the novel Terra Nostra, in which Fuentes explores the presence of Spanish culture and history in Latin America. Williams concludes with a look at how Fuentes' other fiction relates to Terra Nostra, including Fuentes' own division of his work into fourteen cycles that he calls "La Edad del Tiempo," and with an interview in which Fuentes discusses his concept of this cyclical division. Williams' analysis maps a terrain often left unexplored - the "Spanishness" of Latin American culture - and offers the most in-depth study currently available on Latin America's most prolific living novelist. It will be vital reading for all students of Latin American literature.
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Fuentes, Carlos-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fuentes, Carlos., Terra nostra.
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Fuentes, Carlos., Terra Nostra.
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Fuentes, Carlos-- Critique et interprétation.
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Fuentes, Carlos., Terra Nostra.
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Fuentes, Carlos.
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Fuentes, Carlos.
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| Dewey Classification
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863
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| LC Classification
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PQ7297.F793Z94 1996
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18.33bcl
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18.33.bcl
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