Article: FUENTES: A VOICE OF REASON

MYSELF WITH OTHERS. Selected Essays, by Carlos Fuentes.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 214 pp. $19.95.

Reading and writing, states Carlos Fuentes in this absorbing selection of essays, are often acts of decipherment. Is not the quest of Don Quixote a struggle to make words and things coincide? Since Gogol created his own life as if it occurred in a Gogol story, did he possess an authentic identity? Can we fight injustice, ask the novels of Milan Kundera, without creating injustice?

To bring off a gathering of disparate essays and give it cohesive substance is among the most exacting of literary feats, but Fuentes, Robert F. Kennedy Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard ...

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