Along with such authors as Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar, Fuentes published works that received international acclaim and spurred the reassessment of the position that Latin American authors held in contemporary literature. The Latin American Literature “Boom” Fuentes wrote throughout his diplomatic career, and in the late 1950s and early 1960s he gained international attention as an important contributor to the “boom” in Latin American literature. After graduating from law school, Fuentes traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, to study international law and in 1950 began a long career in foreign affairs that culminated in his serving as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977.
While studying law there, he published several short stories and critical essays in journals. He attended high school in Mexico City and later entered the National University of Mexico.
As a child, he lived at several diplomatic posts in Latin America and spent much of the 1930s in Washington, D.C. Works in Biographical and Historical Contextĭiplomatic Roots, Law School, and International Service Carlos Fuentes, the son of a Mexican career diplomat, was born on November 11, 1928, in Panama City, Panama. Fuentes uses the past, thematically and symbolically, to comment on contemporary concerns and to project his own vision of Mexico's future. Fuentes writes: “Our political life is fragmented, our history shot through with failure, but our cultural tradition is rich, and I think the time is coming when we will have to look at our faces, our own past.” This tradition incorporates elements of Aztec culture, the Christian faith imparted by the SpanishĬonquistadors, and the failed hopes of the Mexican Revolution. In his work, Fuentes often intertwines myth, legend, and history to examine his country's roots and discover the essence of modern Mexican society. His overriding literary concern is to establish a viable Mexican identity, both as an autonomous entity and in relation to the outside world. Carlos Fuentes is widely regarded as Mexico's foremost contemporary novelist.
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