Maarten van Delden is Professor of Latin American literature and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA.
Maarten van Delden's insight into Carlos Fuentes is a triumph of
scholarship. This challenging study is cause for celebration.
--Walter Abish
This lucid book clearly delineates the features of an entire epoch
in, the intellectual life of Mexico. Its analysis provides a key to
understanding one of the key authors of our time and one of the
leading characters in twentieth-century Latin America.
--Alberto Ruy Sanchez
This thoroughly researched and well-documented volume offers an
in-depth look at the literary and political formation of Mexico's
premier novelist and how he fits into the modernism/postmodernism
debate. It is destined to become a much-cited work and should be
required reading for anyone interested in Mexican literary or
cultural studies.
--Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998
Van Delden effectively explores the paradox at the heart of
Fuentes's vision of Mexico: the tension between national identity,
on the one hand, and cosmopolitanism and modernity, on the
other.
--George Yudice, New York University
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