Article: A MAN OF HIS WORDS; For Latin Author Carlos Fuentes, Literature Is All. In the Novel `Diana,' It's His Life.

Carlos Fuentes looks so uncomfortable, sitting on the stage of the Mexican Cultural Institute on 16th Street, shifting, turning, tapping his teeth with a thumbnail, waiting to be called to the lectern.

On this recent Friday afternoon, the hall on the second floor is crowded. Mexico's ambassador to the United States delivers the opening remarks. Fuentes, impeccably dressed in a gray suit, suffers through the praise. He's heard it all before, this man of letters who has won nearly all of the major literary prizes available to a Lat in American writer. He's in town to read at the Smithsonian from his newly translated novel, "Diana, the Goddess Who Hunts Alone," and to receive the Mexican ...

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