The Writings of Carlos Fuentes

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Name /T4984/T4984_END 06/18/04 06:53AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 161 # 1 N O T E S 161 PA R T I 1. Carlos Fuentes, ‘‘How I Started to Write,’’ in Carlos Fuentes, Myself and Others , p. 83. Further quotations are from this same edition. 2. Personal interview with Berta Fuentes (Carlos Fuentes’ mother), Mexico City, December 1989. 3. Personal interview with Carlos Fuentes, Mexico City, August 1989. 4. Ibid. 5. Personal interview with Roberto Torretti, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 27, 1991. 6. Ibid. 7. Roberto Torretti’s books include Manuel Kant: Estudio sobre los fundamentos de la filosofı́a crı́tica (Santiago: Ediciones de la Universidad de Chile, 1967); Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré (Dordreth: D. Reidel Publishing, 1978); Relativity and Geometry (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1983); Creative Understanding: Philosophical Reflections on Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990). 8. John Reese Stevenson, The Chilean Popular Front, p. 72. 9. Personal interview with Berta Fuentes (Carlos Fuentes’ sister), Mexico City, July 10, 1991. 10. John S. Brushwood, Narrative Innovation and Political Change in Mexico, pp. 31–46. 11. Personal interview with Berta Fuentes (sister), Mexico City, July 10, 1991. 12. Personal interview with José Campillo Sainz, Mexico City, July 12, 1991. 13. Carlos Fuentes, lecture, Coloquio de Invierno, Mexico City, February 10, 1992. 14. Personal interview with Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, Mexico City, September 22, 1991. 15. Personal interview with Sergio Pitol, Mexico City, July 14, 1991. 16. Personal interview with José Campillo Sainz, Mexico City, July 12, 1991. 17. Ibid. 18. Personal interview with Vı́ctor Flores Olea, Mexico City, July 15, 1991. 19. Personal interview with Berta Fuentes (sister), July 10, 1991. Name /T4984/T4984_END 06/18/04 06:53AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 162 # 2 20. Ibid. Berta Fuentes showed me a family album with Carlos Fuentes’ picture during this period. 21. Personal interview with Carlos Fuentes, London, July 15, 1992. 22. Ibid. 23. David G. La France, ‘‘Mexico Since Cárdenas,’’ p. 213. 24. Novedades, December 5, 1954, no. 298, p. 2. 25. Fuentes purposely did not receive his law degree, even though he completed his coursework, in order to avoid holding the title of Licenciado. 26. Brushwood, Narrative Innovation and Political Change, p. 49. 27. Revista Mexicana de Literatura, no. 6 (July–August 1956): 581–589. 28. Personal interview with Sergio Pitol, Mexico City, July 14, 1991. 29. Ibid. 30. La France, ‘‘Mexico Since Cárdenas,’’ p. 213. 31. José Donoso, Historia personal del ‘‘boom.’’ 32. Roderic A. Camp, Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico, p. 141. 33. Personal interview with Pierre Schori, Boulder, Colorado, December 6, 1993. The Swedish political scholar and politician, who has followed Fuentes’ politics since the late 1960s, describes Fuentes’ current political stances as those of a ‘‘radical democrat.’’ 34. Ibid. 35. Personal interview with Gabriel Garcı́a Márquez, Mexico City, February 11, 1992. 36. Ibid. 37. In Aura, at least two beginnings of Terra Nostra are evident: (1) the transformation of characters and (2) the particular use of history in which historical characters are duplicated in later generations. 38. John S. Brushwood coined the term ‘‘small-screen fiction’’ in The Spanish American Novel: A Twentieth-Century Survey, pp. 267–286. 39. In a letter from John S. Brushwood to me dated November 8, 1993, Brushwood states: ‘‘You didn’t necessarily have to be a celebrity to be invited to Fuentes’ Sunday gatherings. My student Frobén Lozada called Fuentes and was invited to one of them.’’ 40. Personal interview with Gabriel Garcı́a Márquez, Mexico City, February 11, 1992. 41. Personal interview with William Styron, Mexico City, February 11, 1992. 42. Ibid. 43. Wendy Farris, Carlos Fuentes, p. 138. 44. Juan Goytisolo, Realms of Strife, p. 64. 45. Despite Fuentes’ criticism of some aspects of the Cuban regime, he maintained his friendship with Julio Cortázar until the Argentine’s death in 1984, and he is still a very close personal friend of Gabriel Garcı́a Márquez, as both Fuentes and Garcı́a Márquez have confirmed with me in personal interviews. 46. Farris, Carlos Fuentes, p. 79. 47. Personal interview with Carlos Fuentes, London, July 15, 1992. 162 N O T E S T O P A G E S 1 9 – 3 9 Name /T4984/T4984_END 06/18/04 06:53AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 163 # 3 48. Personal interview with William...