Remembering Carlos Fuentes on his birthday 🎂
📷 Christopher Pillitz, London, 1994
"We cannot fathom a debate on Mexican literary and humanistic traditions in which his name and work are absent."
- Rubén Beltrán
Carlos Fuentes was a member of the Cannes jury in 1977. What a fascinating group!
Roberto Rossellini, Anatole Dauman, Benoîte Groult, Carlos Fuentes, Jacques Demy, Marthe Keller, Pauline Kael, Youri Ozerov & N'sougan Agblemagnon
📷 Patrice Picot, May 20
Carlos Fuentes & Gabriel Garcia Marquez were close friends
📷 Dario Lopez-Mills, 2008
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"We used to walk into Carlos Fuentes's study & find him typing with a single finger of one hand, in the middle of a dense cloud of smoke & isolated from the horrors of the universe by the music of the Beatles at full blast."
- GGM
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Carlos Fuentes by Vittoriano Rastelli, 1988
"Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre."
Carlos Fuentes with his wife Rita Macedo & daughter Cecilia
A wonderful portrait by Bert Stern, 1966
Rita Macedo was a star of radio, television & movies during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was married to Carlos Fuentes from 1959 to 1973.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mace…
Carlos Fuentes:
First I write it out in longhand, and then when I feel I “have” it, I let it rest. Then I correct the manuscript and type it out myself, correcting it until the last moment.
Carlos Fuentes by Tiziano Fabi, Rome, 2004
"Writing is a struggle against silence."

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