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Guardian: Mexico mocks presidential candidate for literature festival faux pas
[The Guardian] - Except he mistakenly attributed the second book, a classic satire on Mexico's politics, to a historian and not novelist Carlos Fuentes; and, he hastily clarified, he had not read the good book entirely cover to cover.
Bleak encounters
www.ft.com
[Financial Times] - In previous years Carlos Fuentes got “lost in a leafiness like that of a forest of fleshy ferns”; Amos Oz was “like some piece of sonar equipment ... anticipating and consciously avoiding every sandbank, steering clear of each underwater reef”;
Books of the Year 2011: Memoir
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - Styron was the fourth child of the novelist (or “high priest at the altar of fiction”, as Carlos Fuentes described him) William Styron. Life in the Styron household seems to have been a high-octane mixture of drink, depression, writer's block
Spiegel.de: Mexikanischer Schriftsteller Carlos Fuentes ist tot - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Er war einer der Großen der spanischsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur: Der mexikanische Schriftsteller Carlos Fuentes ist gestorben. Staatspräsident Felipe...
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