Carlos Fuentes Livres

Quatre nouvelles. Quatre histoires captivantes qui plongent le lecteur dans des univers riches et dépaysants. À Tolède, un drame va bouleverser la vie d'une jeune femme. À Paris, un traducteur arpente les rues de la Ville Lumière muni de son appareil photo dans l'espoir de réaliser un cliché extraordinaire. À Chicago, une octogénaire acariâtre embauche avec réticence une femme de ménage mexicaine. Sur une plage des îles Baléares, un homme épie un couple magnétique et tente de percer le mystère qui l'entoure. Ce recueil est une invitation à découvrir la plume de quatre auteurs emblématiques de la littérature espagnole et sud-américaine, dévoilant ainsi toute la richesse de leur langue. L'ouvrage se compose de "La force du sang" de Miguel de Cervantes, "Les fils de la vierge" de Julio Cortázar, "Les amies" de Carlos Fuentes et "Tandis qu'elles dorment" de Javier Marías.

Diana Soren, actriz bella y solitaria, fuerte pero vulnerable, es una mujer de su tiempo. En Diana o la cazadora solitaria, Carlos Fuentes recrea con especial vehemencia, no solamente la fuerza del episodio erótico entre la protagonista y un escritor mexicano, sino el retrato fiel del amor a toda costa. Per más allá de todo esto, sobresale la crónica de una época -finales de los sesenta-, en que la agitación social y la muerte trágica de las ilusiones de toda una generación trazan un horizonte dramático donde transcurren los últimos días de la actruz y su vida apasionada y sincera

Set in South America between 1810 and 1830 - a time when Chile, Argentina, Peru and Mexico were all shaken by brutal revolutions to throw off Spanish rule. The narrator of the story is Manuel Varele who, with his friends, spend hours in the coffee houses. By the winner of the Romula Gallegos Prize.

Most beautiful book ever about Mexico. 150 aerial color photos. 145,000 sold.

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) remains a compelling force in the art world. This facsimile of her remarkable diary reveals the passion and enormous strength of the last ten years of her anguished life. 338 illustrations, 167 in color.

Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans. -Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say.- Milan Kundera

"In this deeply personal book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and fiercest passions." Arranged alphabetically from "Amore" to "Zurich," This I Believe takes us on an inner journey with a great writer. Fuentes ranges wide, from contradictions inherent in Latin American culture and politics to his long friendship with director Luis Bunuel. Along the way, we find reflections on the mixed curse and blessing of globalization; memories of a sexual initiation in Zurich; a fond tracing of a family tree heavy with poets, dreamers, and diplomats; evocations of the streets, cafes, and bedrooms of Washington, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Cambridge, Oaxaca, and New York; and a celebration of literary heroes including Balzac, Cervantes, Faulkner, Kafka, and Shakespeare.

Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have warranted this new translation by Alfred Mac Adam, translator (with the author) of Fuentes's Christopher Unborn.As in all his fiction, but perhaps most powerfully in this book, Fuentes is a passionate guide to the ironies of Mexican history, the burden of its past, and the anguish of its present.