Carlos Fuentes

Host:

Michael Silverblatt

Listen to/Watch entire show:

The Years with Laura Díaz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Mexico's foremost living writer, Carlos Fuentes, talks about the male and female perspectives in his work. His famous character Artemio Cruz was, he claims, a critique of machismo. It is a woman, Laura D---, who presides over his new novel, an epic about the 20th century.

Read an excerpt from The Years with Laura Díaz.

Banner image: Carlos Fuentes at the Miami Book Fair International in 1987. Photo courtesy of Miami-Dade College archives

Guests:

Carlos Fuentes: author, 'The Years with Laura Diaz'

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