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• Simultaneity, Desire, and Identity, Part III

  February 5, 2009

  • Man’s Struggles and Woman’s Intrigues.Carlos Fuentes begins Aura  with the epigraph from Jules Michelet :“Man hunts and struggles. / Woman intrigues and dreams; [ . . .]. Fuentes explains in the his essay “How I wrote One of My Books,” that man struggles because he—through his own patriarchal schemes, devices, and delusions---has fragmented his natural self, separated reason from ...
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• Simultaneity, Desire, and Identity, Part II

  February 5, 2009

  • Aura and Javier San Andres Simultaneity is one of those words so charactersitic of Carlos Fuentes, for few writers grasp the totality of natural existence as he does. His writing reveals an essential fact of being: that everything exists simultaneously because all things come from one origin, one big bang either as the expression of God or a phenomenon of emergence; that many layers of time ...
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• Simultaneity, Desire, and Identity Part I

  December 7, 2008

  • One of the hazards of the so-called "magical realist" writers like me is that many an eager reader of the Edwardian persuasion will fail to see that the resolution of this particular narrative style is based on multiplicity and simultaneity rather than conventional realism. I bring out this point because here and there, a critic or a reader will misconstrue my experimentation with some ...
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