Carlos Fuentes citations

Carlos Fuentes Macías, né à Panama le 11 novembre 1928 et mort le 15 mai 2012 à Mexico, est un écrivain et essayiste mexicain.

✵ 11. novembre 1928 – 15. mai 2012
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“[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.”

Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006

“Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."”

About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006

“The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.”

"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.

“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 27.

“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”

"To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.

“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”

La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)

“The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”

Carlos Fuentes livre The Death of Artemio Cruz

Describing a Mexican baroque church
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)

“A tropical Mussolini”

Describing Hugo Chavez
Quoted in The Economist, 19 May 2012, p. 90

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