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Article: Fuentes is betrayed by his heroine
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 12, 1995
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DIANA
The Goddess Who Hunts Alone
By Carlos Fuentes; translated from the Spanish by Alfred
Macadam
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 218 pp., $21
Robert Taylor is the former chief book critic of the
Globe.
Intelligent readers know that one shouldn't mistake fictional
characters for a portrait of the author, the scenes of a book for a
coded message. Novels are simply novels, works of art, not social
documents. All the same, it is impossible to read "Diana," the
latest fiction by the eminent Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, and not
sense a quasi-autobiographical link to the tragic life of the screen
actress Jean Seberg.
Like Seberg, Fuentes' heroine Diana Soren comes from a small ...