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Article: La frontera de cristal: Una novela en nueve cuentos.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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In his 1987 novel Cristobal Nonato (Eng. Christopher Unborn, 1989) Carlos Fuentes created a country and gave it a name: Mexamerica, "la primera republica que se independizo de los Estados Unidos y de Mexico." The geographic locus of Fuentes's fictional country in that novel is la frontera, or, as the author would also have it in that same book, "El Norte, tierra de encuentros." Since 1987 much has happened in real Mexamerica, and so too in Fuentes, whose most recent fiction in La frontera de cristal caps a period in his career that saw frequent exchanges with life and people on both sides of the border. Not a few of the pieces in this collection are inscribed to individuals ...
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