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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 15, 1994
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THE SUITCASES were still piled up in the sunny living room of
Carlos Fuentes's London penthouse. He and his wife had arrived from
New York, en route from Mexico City, the previous day. We exchanged
the platitudes of transatlantic travel: the chit-chat of
peripatetic cosmopolitan man. There have been six months in Mexico;
now there will be three months in London, then back to Mexico.
Like the Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, Fuentes has
adopted London as the place in which to be ignored and to write. If
you read previous interviews with Fuentes, you will discover that,
come rain or shine, he writes between 8am and 1pm. Like many things
in the strange world of dead bt ever-recycled ...