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Carlos Fuentes
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...
By Michael Silverblatt • • 1 min readThe 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