Article: Fuentes is betrayed by his heroine

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 ...

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