Carlos Fuentes - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

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ANTHONY DePALMA “Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Man of Letters, Dies at 83” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/books/carlos-fuentes-mexican-novelist-dies-at-83.html

既に半月も前だが、メヒコの作家カルロス・フエンテスが亡くなったことを知る。実をいうと、フエンテスの作品は『老いぼれグリンコ』しか読んではいないのだが。
上掲のNYTの記事、オクタビオ・パスとの関わりに言及した箇所が面白かった；

For much of his career Mr. Fuentes competed for recognition and influence in Mexico and abroad with another titan of Mexican letters, the poet Octavio Paz. Mr. Fuentes received the National Order of Merit, France’s highest civilian award given to a foreigner; Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for literature in 1994; and, in 1987, the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. Mr. Paz, however, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. Mr. Fuentes, a perennial on the shortlist for the honor, never did.
The two became friends in 1950, when Mr. Paz published his landmark work on Mexican identity, “The Labyrinth of Solitude.” They worked together on several literary projects. But by the mid-1980s their political opinions had started to differ. Mr. Fuentes supported the Sandinistas, the leftist rebel group in Nicaragua, but Mr. Paz, who had more conservative views, condemned them. Then, in 1988, the literary magazine Vuelta, which Mr. Paz directed, published an article fiercely critical of Mr. Fuentes, accusing him of lacking true Mexican identity. That set off an often public feud that lasted until Mr. Paz died in 1998. Neither man apologized, diminishing the reputations of both.

老いぼれグリンゴ (集英社文庫)

作者: カルロスフエンテス,Carlos Fuentes,安藤哲行
出版社/メーカー: 集英社
発売日: 1994/08
メディア: 文庫
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