Remembrance
The great Mexican writer died a year ago. His translator Ethan Shaskan Bumas remembers the lessons Fuentes’s novels taught us.
Ethan Shaskan Bumas is the author of the story collection The Price of Tea in China, a finalist for PEN America West Fiction Book of the Year, and the translator, with Alejandro Branger, of three Carlos Fuentes novels, Vlad, Adam in Eden, and the forthcoming Friedrich on the Balcony. He teaches at New Jersey City University.
The great Mexican writer died a year ago. His translator Ethan Shaskan Bumas remembers the lessons Fuentes’s novels taught us.