Carlos Fuentes
Writer Carlos Fuentes to speak Feb. 10 at UTSA
(Feb. 4, 2004)--Acclaimed Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes will speak on "Mexico in a Nutshell" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 10 at the UTSA Recreation and Wellness Center on the 1604 Campus. The lecture is free and open to all.
Fuentes, who is considered one of the most important contemporary voices in Latin American literature, spent his youth in Washington, D.C., and later lived in Argentina and Chile, as well as his native Mexico.
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RSS FeedsHis roving childhood led to an education received partly in English and partly in Spanish, giving him a unique hemispheric perspective. Few Latin American writers have such an intimate knowledge of Americans or see the American/Latin American cultural dynamic with the depth that has earned Fuentes a reputation as Mexico's most famous living novelist.
His works include more than a dozen novels, beginning in 1958 with the classic, "La region mas transparente" ("Where the Air is Clear”), followed by "La Muerte de Artemio Cruz," "Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories," "Change of Skin," "Terra Nostra," "The Old Gringo," "New Time for Mexico" and several volumes of short stories, plays and essays on literary, cultural and political topics.
A former Mexican ambassador to France and a law school graduate, Fuentes began his literary career by composing limericks in English while a student at a British school in Santiago, Chile. Reading the works of legendary Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires convinced the 14-year-old Fuentes that Spanish was his language, and it became the one in which he penned his body of work.
The lecture is sponsored by the Instituto de Mexico in San Antonio, UTSA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mexico), Unit of Cultural Affairs (Mexico), San Antonio-Mexico Friendship Council, City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, Carlos Alvarez, Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Express-News.
Parking for the event will be available in lot 5, south of the Convocation Center. Access lot 5 by turning north from UTSA Boulevard onto Edward Ximenes Boulevard; lot 5 is ahead and to the left.
For more information, contact Teresa Cruz, Instituto de Mexico, at 210- 227-0130.