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Product Description: Cine y gran literatura en una obra inÃ©dita de Carlos FuentesEsta es la historia de una relaciÃ³n personal con el cine. Carlos Fuentes cuenta cÃ³mo fueron sus primeros acercamientos a las salas cinematogrÃ¡ficas, de la mano de su padre, su consecuente deslumbramiento ante las imÃ¡genes en movimiento en la pantalla de plata, y su ulterior e incurable aficiÃ³n al cine...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071134493 | Original edition (Alfaguara, January 30, 2015), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Cine y gran literatura en una obra inÃ©dita de Carlos FuentesEsta es la historia de una relaciÃ³n personal con el cine.

Obras reunidas IV / Collected Works IV: Ensayos Sobre Literatura Mexicana Del Siglo XX / Essays About Mexican Literature of the Twentieth Century

By Margo Glantz

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9786071614803 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, February 7, 2014, cover price $49.95

Cuentos completos / Complete Stories

By Carlos Fuentes and Omegar Martinez (introduced by)

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9786071611994 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, April 11, 2013, cover price $37.95

Adam in Eden

Product Description: In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden--but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security--also named Adam--who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that he's letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers go free...read more

By Alejandro Branger (trans), E. Shaskan Bumas (trans) and Carlos Fuentes

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9781564787965 | Dalkey Archive Pr, January 15, 2013, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden--but there are snakes in this Eden too.

Obras reunidas / Collected Works: Fabulaciones TrasatlÃ¡nticas / Transatlantic Fabulations

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By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071612366, titled "Obras reunidas / Collected Works: Fabulaciones TrasatlÃ¡nticas / Transatlantic Fabulations" | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2012, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: New product.

Federico en su balcon / Federico on His Balcony

Product Description: Esta novela es el testamento literario de Carlos Fuentes, una lecciÃ³n definitiva sobre lo que fue y seguirÃ¡ siendo como escritor. Un autorretrato hablado donde el narrador se multiplica en sus personajes, creando la contradicciÃ³n espiritual y filosÃ³fica que siempre bullÃ³ en su alma, una dialÃ©ctica que abre interrogaciones sin intentar respuestas determinantes...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071120069 | Alfaguara, December 30, 2012, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Esta novela es el testamento literario de Carlos Fuentes, una lecciÃ³n definitiva sobre lo que fue y seguirÃ¡ siendo como escritor.

Adam in Eden

Product Description: Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden - but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam's wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security - also named Adam...read more

By Robert Fass (narrator) and Carlos Fuentes

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9781624060755 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, December 11, 2012), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden - but there are snakes in this Eden too.

9781624060793 | Mp3 una edition (Ingram Pub Services, December 11, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden - but there are snakes in this Eden too.

Instinto de Inez / Inez's Instinct

Product Description: Dos historias, dos parejas, dos tiempos y dos pasiones. Una de estas encarna en Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, director de orquesta, y Inez Prada, una excelsa cantante de Ã³pera. La otra remite al primer encuentro de la humanidad entre un hombre y una mujer; esas pasiones rompen con todos los lÃmites para consagrarse en una historia que comenzÃ³ en la prehistoria y que continÃºa en una espiral infinita hacia el futuro...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9789705800061 | Alfaguara, September 25, 2012, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Dos historias, dos parejas, dos tiempos y dos pasiones.

Personas / Persons

Product Description: Obra inÃ©dita de Carlos Fuentes en la que retrata los diferentes personajes a los que conociÃ³ y que influyeron en su vida. El diplomÃ¡tico y escritor mexicano deja un testimonio de afectos en este ensayo, que refleja la dimensiÃ³n universal de sus amistades...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071118806 | Alfaguara, August 30, 2012, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Obra inÃ©dita de Carlos Fuentes en la que retrata los diferentes personajes a los que conociÃ³ y que influyeron en su vida.

Vlad

Product Description: 'Vlad' is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead. More than a postmodern riff on 'the vampire craze,' 'Vlad' is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death...read more

By Robert Fass (narrator) and Carlos Fuentes

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9781611207545 | Unabridged edition (Ingram Pub Services, July 24, 2012), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: 'Vlad' is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

9781611207576 | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, July 24, 2012), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: 'Vlad' is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Vlad

Product Description: Â«Â¿QuÃ© estarÃas dispuesto a hacer por la inmortalidad? Â¿QuÃ© entregarÃasâ¦ o a quiÃ©n?Â» Piensas que todo estÃ¡ bien. Eres feliz. Entonces tu jefe te encarga un trabajo extraoficial, nada muy complicado, se trata solamente de conseguir una casa para un excÃ©ntrico conde rumano...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071105622 | Alfaguara, November 30, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Â«Â¿QuÃ© estarÃas dispuesto a hacer por la inmortalidad?

Vlad

Product Description: Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula...read more

By Alejandro Branger (trans), E. Shaskan Bumas (trans) and Carlos Fuentes

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9781564787798 | Italian edition edition (Dalkey Archive Pr, July 18, 2012), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost?

Obras reunidas: Fronteras mexicanas / Una familia lejana / La campana / La frontera de cristal

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071609717 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 29, 2012, cover price $40.00

La gran novela latinoamericana / The Great Latin American Novel

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071111715 | Alfaguara, November 30, 2011, cover price $24.99

Carolina Grau

Product Description: The jailer has his jailer, and that one in turn has his own, and this endless cycle continues until eternity. You and I are the final links in a long chain of submissions. This is the order of the world, my young friend. Is there any other way out? So speaks one of the characters in this collection of short stories where Carolina Grau will amble, at times as the subtlest of presences, at times as a person, a ghost or an enigma, but always drawing a delicate halo of mystery...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071107213 | Alfaguara, January 30, 2011, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The jailer has his jailer, and that one in turn has his own, and this endless cycle continues until eternity.

El espejo enterrado / The Buried Mirror: Reflexiones sobre Espana y America / Reflections on Spain and America

Product Description: De los espejos de obsidiana enterrados en la urbe totonaca de El TajÃn a los espejos ibÃ©ricos de Cervantes y VelÃ¡zquez, un intercambio de reflejos culturales ha ido y venido de una a otra orilla del AtlÃ¡ntico a lo largo de mÃ¡s de quinientos aÃ±os; este ensayo cuenta esa historia...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071106148 | Alfaguara, November 30, 2010, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: De los espejos de obsidiana enterrados en la urbe totonaca de El TajÃn a los espejos ibÃ©ricos de Cervantes y VelÃ¡zquez, un intercambio de reflejos culturales ha ido y venido de una a otra orilla del AtlÃ¡ntico a lo largo de mÃ¡s de quinientos aÃ±os; este ensayo cuenta esa historia.

Cuentos breves para leer en la cama / Short Stories to Read in Bed

Product Description: This book is a marvelous collection of short stories, stories to be read in bed; perhaps on those nights when sleep eludes us, on those where we want to let our dreams take flight, or, maybe on those nights when we want to love.....read more

By Francisco Ayala, Mario Benedetti, Luis Mateo Diez, Carlos Fuentes and Almudena Grandes

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9788466323406 | Punto De Lectura, January 4, 2010, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: This book is a marvelous collection of short stories, stories to be read in bed; perhaps on those nights when sleep eludes us, on those where we want to let our dreams take flight, or, maybe on those nights when we want to love.

Adan en Eden / Adam in Eden

Product Description: AdÃ¡n Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages. Su matrimonio con Priscila, codiciada heredera del poderoso empresario Celestino HolguÃn (mejor conocido como el Rey del Bizcocho), fue un afortunado lance que, en palabras llanas, se llama Âdar el braguetazoâ, y lo llevÃ³ de pobretÃ³n pasante de la carrera de Leyes a influyente abogado empresarial dueÃ±o de vidas y haciendas, aÃºn mÃ¡s encumbrado que su suegro...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9786071103062 | Alfaguara, December 15, 2009, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: AdÃ¡n Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages.

Mexico: Juan Rulfo fotografo / Juan Rulfo Photographer

By Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz, Jorge Alberto Lozoya and Autores Varios

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9788477827788 | Ill edition (Lunwerg Editores Sa, June 30, 2009), cover price $55.95

Cervantes o la critica de la lectura / Cervantes or the Critical Reading

By Carlos Fuentes

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9788488333032 | Centro De Estudios Cervantinos, June 30, 2009, cover price $35.95

Yankee Invasion: A Novel of Mexico City

Product Description: Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who as a young man witnessed the events, narrates the novel and in its very first pages commits an act of resistance that will haunt him the rest of his life...read more

By Timothy G. Compton (trans), Carlos Fuentes (introduced by) and Ignacio Solares

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9780979824944 | Original edition (Pgw, May 1, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States.

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Product Description: As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz's heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death...read more

By Carlos Fuentes and Alfred MacAdam (trans)

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9780374531805 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 3, 2009, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life.

El tuerto es rey / The Half-Blinded Man is King

Product Description: ''Our personality is made up of many facets we have, ourselves, forgotten.'' Carlos Fuentes In this play a lady and her servant inhabit an abandoned house. Both are blind, yet each one believes that the other can see, that the other is their guardian, their guide...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9789705800962, titled "El tuerto es rey / The Half Blinded Man is King" | Alfaguara, January 1, 2009, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: ''Our personality is made up of many facets we have, ourselves, forgotten.

La region mas transparente / Where the Air is Clear

Product Description: Un enigma del pasado y un misterio del presente se unen en un apasionante juego de trampasCon motivo del 50 aniversario de Alfaguara, este tÃtulo ha sido elegido como uno de los 50 imprescindibles de la historia de la editorial.A finales del siglo XV un viejo maestro flamenco introduce en uno de sus cuadros, en forma de partida de ajedrez, la clave de un secreto que pudo cambiar la historia de Europa...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9788420469034 | Anv edition (Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana,, November 30, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Un enigma del pasado y un misterio del presente se unen en un apasionante juego de trampasCon motivo del 50 aniversario de Alfaguara, este tÃtulo ha sido elegido como uno de los 50 imprescindibles de la historia de la editorial.

9788420422503 | Revised edition (Alfaguara, S.A. Grupo Santillana,, November 30, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: To celebrate the happy occurrence of Carlos Fuentes' 80th birthday, and his masterpiece's 50th anniversary, the Real Academia Espanola and the Asociacion de Academias have enthusiastically joined the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in the creation of a commemorative edition of this memorable work of fiction.

Obras reunidas III / Collected Works III: Imaginaciones mexicanas / Mexian Imaginations

Product Description: Este volumen, el tercero de las Obras reunidas de Carlos fuentes, representa el mundo imaginativo y ficcional del escritor, que explora las regiones de lo misterioso, lo mÃtico y secreto, crea ambientes de suspenso y horror abordando temas como el laberinto entre el sueÃ±o y la realidad, el misterio del tiempo, la vejez, la trascendencia, la reencarnaciÃ³n, lo vampÃrico, lo sobrenatural, el arte y el amor...read more

By Carlos Fuentes

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9789681684679 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, November 12, 2008, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Este volumen, el tercero de las Obras reunidas de Carlos fuentes, representa el mundo imaginativo y ficcional del escritor, que explora las regiones de lo misterioso, lo mÃtico y secreto, crea ambientes de suspenso y horror abordando temas como el laberinto entre el sueÃ±o y la realidad, el misterio del tiempo, la vejez, la trascendencia, la reencarnaciÃ³n, lo vampÃrico, lo sobrenatural, el arte y el amor.

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