Learning From Carlos Fuentes, One Year On

Remembrance

The great Mexican writer died a year ago. His translator Ethan Shaskan Bumas remembers the lessons Fuentes’s novels taught us.

Published May 15 2013 4:45AM EDT

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From the start of his writing career in the 1950s, history (and historical myth) would always be present for Carlos Fuentes, as he argued it was for his nation, Mexico.

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Learning From Carlos Fuentes, One Year On

The great Mexican writer died a year ago. His translator Ethan Shaskan Bumas remembers the lessons Fuentes’s novels taught us.

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Ethan Shaskan Bumas