Frases célebres de Carlos Fuentes
“Con nuestra cultura de primer mundo podremos salir de nuestro tercer mundo.”
En la XXI edición de la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara, noviembre de 2007».
Carlos Fuentes: Frases en inglés
Quoted in Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
About being denied a visa to the United States in the early 1960s after he praised the Cuban Revolution; as quoted by Anne-Marie O'Connor, "Novelist Carlos Fuentes confronts mortality and his country's future", http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-fuentes-profile-2006,0,4464743.story Los Angeles Times, 26 April 2006
“The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.”
"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 5.
“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
"How I Started to Write", in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker (eds.) The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (St. Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 1988); cited from Myself With Others (London: Pan, 1989) p. 27.
“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
"To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
Describing a Mexican baroque church
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
"Doing It Our Way", New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
As quoted in International Herald Tribune (Paris, 5 November 1991)
Describing Hugo Chavez
Quoted in The Economist, 19 May 2012, p. 90
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