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Article: FUENTES: A VOICE OF REASON
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 11, 1988
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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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