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Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama City, Panama, on November 11, 1928, the son of Berta Macías Rivas and Rafael Fuentes Boettiger. At the time of his birth, Carlos Fuentes' father was serving as Mexico's ambassador to Panama. Growing up with a father who was a career diplomat, Carlos Fuentes lived and was educated in many cities in Latin America. During the years, 1934-1939, he lived in Washington, D.C. where his father served as first secretary of Mexico's foreign service delegation to the U.S. He attended primary and secondary schools in Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, and pursued postsecondary studies in Mexico City and Geneva, Switzerland. He received his bachelor's degree from Colegio México and his law degree from the law school of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), both in Mexico City. Fuentes pursued graduate study at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva in 1950-1951, and also served in the Mexican delegation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, in 1951.
In 1953, Fuentes won First Prize in an essay contest sponsored by the law school of UNAM, on the occasion of its Fourth Centenary. In the same year, he collaborated with other young Mexican writers, such as Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, José Emilio Pacheco, and Carlos Monsiváis in publishing the magazine Medio Siglo in Mexico City. In 1955, he collaborated with Jaime García Terrés in editing the publication Universidad de México; and throughout the 1950s, Fuentes wrote articles on literature, film, and politics which were published in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines. In 1956, he co-founded and edited the journal Revista Mexicana de Literatura with Mexican writer Emmanuel Carballo. He worked in several positions in the Secretary of Foreign Relations of the Mexican government during the 1950s.
In 1958, Fuentes' first novel, La región más transparente, was published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico. The first English translation of this novel was published in 1960. In 1962, Carlos Fuentes became an outspoken opponent of American foreign policy in Latin America, when he was invited by Richard N. Goodwin, U.S. assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, to participate in a debate on the Alliance for Progress program. Despite the invitation by Goodwin, he was denied a visa by the U.S. government because of his political views. Two years later, in 1964, the Attorney General granted a temporary waiver of his immigration status, and he was able to enter the U.S. Througout the '60s and '70s, Fuentes worked with lawyers to combat his U.S. immigration classification as "undesirable." In particular, he worked with lawyer William D. Rogers, Jr., of the firm Arnold & Porter, and by the 1980s, he had far less trouble obtaining a visa.
In 1962, Fuentes' novels La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Aura were published in Mexico. The first English translations of these novels were published as The Death of Artemio Cruz (translated by Sam Hileman) and Aura (translated by Lysander Kemp) by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964 and 1965, respectively.
In 1965, Fuentes served as Mexico's ambassador to Italy, and he lived in Rome. He moved to Paris in 1966, and befriended artists and writers such as the painters Alberto Gironella, Pierre Alechinsky, and Valerio Adami, and novelist Julio Cortázar. In 1968, Fuentes traveled to Prague with writers Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez to aid the writers and artists of Czechoslovakia, and he met Milan Kundera for the first time. Fuentes' plays Todos los gatos son pardos and El tuerto es rey were first published in 1970, and in the same year El tuerto es rey was produced at the Theater an der Wien of Vienna and the Festival of Avignon (France).
Fuentes's nonfiction essays and articles of the 1960s and early 1970s were published in two anthologies, Casa con dos puertas (1970) and Tiempo mexicano (1971). In 1972, Fuentes was elected to permanent membership in El Colegio Nacional, México. In 1974, Fuentes held a visiting fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.During the period 1971-1974, Fuentes began writing the novel Terra Nostra, and he wrote the essay Cervantes o la crítica de la lectura as an outgrowth of his research for the novel. Terra Nostra was first published in Mexico in 1975, and the English translation by Margaret Sayers Peden, was published under the same title by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1976.
Carlos Fuentes served as Mexico's ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977. In 1977, he began a series of teaching and creative writing posts at American universities. He taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, and in the fall of 1979, at Princeton. He taught at Dartmouth College in 1980-1981 and at Harvard University from 1983 to 1985. In 1986-1987, he held the Simón Bolivar Chair at Cambridge University (England), and in the fall of 1987 he returned to Harvard to inaugurate the Robert F. Kennedy Professorship in Latin American Studies, which he held until July 1988.
In 1985, Fuentes' novel Gringo Viejo and the English translation (by Margaret Sayers Peden and the author) were published. The movie Old Gringo which is based on the novel, was produced by Jane Fonda, filmed in 1988, and released in 1989.
Fuentes moved to London, England in 1990 to collaborate with Malone Gill Productions in the making of the television series The Buried Mirror and the Spanish language version El espejo enterrado. Fuentes served as both principal writer and onscreen host of five television programs which explore the history of Spain and Latin America in light of the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's landing on the island of San Salvador in 1492.
Some of Fuentes' writings in English were published in Myself with Others: Selected Essays in 1988; other literary essays are compiled in Geografía de la novela (1990) and Valiente Mundo Nuevo: Épica, utopía y mito en la novela hispanoamericana (1993). In recent years, he has published several books of fiction, a revised version of the play Todos los gatos son pardos (published as Ceremonias del alba), and the nonfiction work, Nuevo tiempo mexicano (1995).
Throughout his career, Carlos Fuentes has received many literary prizes, including the following: Biblioteca Breve Prize from Editorial Seix Barral (Barcelona, 1967) for Cambio de piel, Premio Internacional de Novela "Rómulo Gallegos" (Caracas, 1977), Premio Internacional "Alfonso Reyes" (Mexico, 1979), Premio Nacional de Lingüística y Literatura (Mexico, 1984), Premio Miguel de Cervantes (Spain, 1987), and Premio Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Spain, 1992). He has received honorary doctorates from Harvard, Georgetown, UCLA, and Washington University of St. Louis, Mo., and from many colleges, including Dartmouth and Bard, and Cambridge and Essex Universities in England.
From 1957 to 1969, Carlos Fuentes was married to Rita Macedo, a Mexican film actress. In 1973, he married Sylvia Lemus, a television and newspaper journalist. From his first marriage, he has a daughter, Cecilia (b. 1962), and with Sylvia Fuentes de Lemus he has two children, Rafael (b. 1973) and Natasha (b. 1974). He died on May 15, 2012 in Mexico City, Mexico.
This collection consists of personal and working papers of Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, editor, and diplomat: notebooks, manuscripts of novels and novellas, short stories, plays, screenplays, nonfiction writings, speeches and interviews, translations of fiction and nonfiction, correspondence, juvenilia, drawings, documents, photographs, audiocassettes, papers of others, scrapbooks, and printed material. Included are manuscripts and some galleys and page proofs with holograph corrections of the novels La cabeza de la hidra, Cambio de piel, La campaña, Constancia y otras novelas para vírgenes, Cristóbal Nonato, Una familia lejana, Gringo viejo, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, El naranjo, o los círculos del tiempo, La región más transparente, and Terra Nostra; draft manuscripts and some galleys and page proofs for the English translations of the novels listed above, and for novels Aura, Diana, The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, The Years with Laura Diaz, and Inez. There are also drafts of short stories collected under the titles Agua quemada, Cantar de ciegos, Chac Mool y otros cuentos, Cuerpos y ofrendas and Los días enmascarados; drafts of plays Todos los gatos son pardos, El tuerto es rey and Orchids in the Moonlight (English and Spanish versions); drafts of program scripts for the television series The Buried Mirror, and Spanish language version El espejo enterrado; and drafts of the companion books to the TV series.
The collection also includes drafts of screenplays written by Fuentes, or in collaboration with others, such as "Children of Sanchez," "Juarez," and a film about Luis Buñuel; and many manuscripts of screenplays written by others, several of which are adaptations of Fuentes' books, such as "Aura" by Serge Sandor, "Birthdays" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and "Old Gringo" by Luis Valdez. The Nonfiction and Speeches and Interviews subseries are extensive and include a wide variety of journalism written for major newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Mexico, and Spain and for other publications. Speechs include Fuentes' Harvard University commencement address, and his acceptance speech for the Premio Cervantes [literary prize] delivered in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
The papers also include correspondence with translators and drafts of many translations of Fuentes' writings. Included are typescript drafts, galleys, and page proofs of translations by Margaret Sayers Peden of several of Fuentes' novels, including Terra Nostra. Correspondence between Peden and Fuentes spans the period 1971-1990; correspondence with Céline Zins, primary translator of Fuentes' writings into French, is also extensive and spans 1970 to 1992.
The Correspondence series covers the period 1944-1994, and includes letters from family members and a wide range of publishers, literary agents, artists, filmmakers, and politicians.
There are letters received and letters sent by Fuentes to Latin American writers, including Alfonso Reyes, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Juan Carlos Onetti, and to writers of the "Boom" in Latin American fiction, such as Cabrera Infante, José Donoso, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Some of the Mexican writers represented in the collection are Octavio Paz, José Emilio Pacheco, Elena Garro, Elena Poniatowska, Fernando Benítez, Ramón Xirau, María Luisa Mendoza, and Carlos Monsiváis.
There is also extensive correspondence with international writers Harold Pinter, Milan Kundera, Vasiles Vasilikos, Italo Calvino, Régis Debray, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, and William Styron, among others, and with filmmakers and film producers, including Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The series also includes correspondence with literary agents and publishers that documents the financial and public success of Fuentes' career. Some of the publishers and literary agents represented are Brandt & Brandt, Carmen Balcells/Agencia Literaria, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Fondo de CulturaEconómica, and Editorials Joaquín Mortiz and Seix Barral. Publishing executives include Carlos Barral, Joaquín Díez-Canedo, Claude Gallimard, José Luis Martínez, Arnaldo Orfila Reynal, and Roger W. Straus, Jr. Correspondence with Farrar, Straus & Giroux covers the period 1963-1993 and includes contracts and other publishing documents. There is also a large amount of correspondence with students and readers, covering the period 1962-1994.
The collection also includes juvenile writings and drawings from the 1940s and early 1950s, and other miscellaneous cartoons and drawings. There are photographs of Carlos Fuentes and others, miscellaneous documents, and audiocassettes and videcassettes of the author's readings speeches, and other presentations.
The Papers of Others series includes manuscripts by a wide variety of Latin American and American writers, including a one-act play by Octavio Paz and short stories by Juan Rulfo and Julio Cortázar; copies of several doctoral dissertations and other theses on Carlos Fuentes; and a typescript draft and page proofs of a book edited by Cintio Vitier, Antología de la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea (1925-1955).
There is a large amount of printed material both by the author and about the author in the Scrapbooks, Clippings, and Printed Material series. There are clippings and articles in many languages and from publications around the world. Articles include essays, book reviews, interviews, and bibliographies of the author's work. There are 27 scrapbooks, compiled by the author, which contain clippings, memorabilia, and photographs. The series also includes Christmas cards, invitations, maps, menus, and lecture and conference programs.
The Additonal Papers are comprised of notebooks; page proofs; drafts of writings by Fuentes, including novels, articles, essays, reviews, and speeches; English translations of works by Fuentes; videocassettes and audiocassettes; drawings; subject files relating to academic and cultural institutions, publishers, editors, colleagues, other writers, artists, cultural and political figures, friends, and others; speeches and talks given at conferences, convocations, awards ceremonies, lectures, and symposia; printed materials, including event invitations, programs, posters, book covers, publication proofs, photographs, published speeches, press kits, and essays by and about Fuentes; a large number of newspapers and press clippings containing articles by and about Fuentes, including reviews of his works; a few digital files; and other materials. Also included are 14 letters from Carlos Fuentes to Carolyn Pfeiffer written between 1969 and 1971, covering topics of film, including Fuentes' collaboration with Luis Buñuel, theater, literature, and personal matters.
The biographical sketch is based partly on information obtained in Retrato de Carlos Fuentes (Madrid: Círculo de Lectores, 1995).
Carlos Fuentes initially deposited some of his papers in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections during the period 1978-1981, when he lived in Princeton. The Library purchased the collection through an agreement made with Brandt & Brandt in 1995. Several hundred published books by Fuentes, initially part of the papers, are separately catalogued and housed in the Rare Books Division of the Department. Production matter for the English translations of Fuentes' novels and nonfiction, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux as Christopher Unborn, The Campaign, Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins, The Death of Artemio Cruz (rev. ed.), The Orange Tree, Diana, The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, The Years with Laura Diaz, and A New Time for Mexico were given to the Library by the publisher.
Additional Papers purchased from Silvia Lemus and her literary agent Brandt & Hochberg in 2013 (AM 2013-112). Letters from Carlos Fuentes to Carolyn Pfeiffer purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in 2021 (AM 2022-045).
This collection contains digital files in the following formats: Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. Refer to our Tips on Accessing Born-Digital Content for information on how to render these file formats.
Access to digital material in this collection is available on-site in the Special Collections Firestone Reading Room. For more information please contact Special Collections Public Services staff.
This collection was processed by Claire A. Johnston in 1998. Finding aid written by Claire A. Johnston in 1998.
Finding aid updated with new materials by Armando Suárez, with the assistance of Alice Griffin and Alia M. Wood, in December 2019. Letters from Carlos Fuentes to Carolyn Pfeiffer processed and added to finding aid by Armando Suárez in October 2021.
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People
- Asturias, Miguel Ángel
- Barbachano-Ponce, Manuel
- Benítez, Fernando, 1912-2000
- Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983.
- Cabrera Infante, G. (Guillermo), 1929-2005
- Calvino, Italo
- Cortázar, Julio
- Debray, Régis
- Donoso, José, 1924-1996.
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
- Kundera, Milan
- Losey, Joseph
- Mendoza, María Luisa
- Monsiváis, Carlos, 1938-2010
- Pacheco, José Emilio
- Peden, Margaret Sayers.
- Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.
- Poniatowska, Elena
- Reyes, Alfonso, 1889-1959.
- Styron, William, 1925-2006.
- Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936)
- Pfeiffer, Carolyn
Organization
Subject
- Ambassadors -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Critics -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Diplomats -- Mexico -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Dramatists, Mexican -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Latin American fiction -- 20th century
- Latin American literature -- 20th century
- Mexican drama -- 20th century
- Mexican essays -- 20th century
- Mexican fiction -- 20th century
- Mexican literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English
- Mexican literature -- 20th century
- Spanish American literature -- 20th century
- Spanish American poetry -- 20th century
- Translators -- France -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Translators -- United States -- 20th century -- Corresondence
Place
- Latin America -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Mexico -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1946-1970.
- Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1970-1988.
Occupation
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Author
- Claire A. Johnston
- Finding Aid Date
- 1998
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Collection Inventory
This series contains two items, a notebook and a notepad, which have notes and early drafts of Gringo viejo and Orquídeas a la luz de la luna, and drafts of short stories (or novellas) published in Constancia y otras novelas para vírgenes and El naranjo, o, Los círculos del tiempo. Notebooks by Fuentes which contain drafts of a single book, e.g., Terra Nostra, are filed by individual title in Series 2, Subseries 2A and 2C. There are also notebooks in the subseries Teaching Materials (H) and Juvenilia (I).
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(with imprint "Columbia University"). Dated "1979-1980-1984-1985-1985-" on outside cover, with this descriptive note by Fuentes, "v. 1 notebook contains seminal notes for 1) Agua quemada 2) Gringo viejo 3) Constancia stories 4) El naranjo [and] 5) Orchids 1977."
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Contains notes for a lecture to be delivered by Fuentes in Seattle; drafts, table of contents for unnamed(?) short story collections; and list of projects, "orden trabajo Londres."
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The material under Series 2 covers the period 1942 to 1996, and contains all extant versions of Fuentes' fiction, plays, screenplays, short stories, and nonfiction writings. All subseries in this section are arranged alphabetically by title of published or unpublished work, with the exception of the following subseries: Nonfiction Short Works (E1), Speeches and Interviews (F), and Juvenilia (I). This series includes a few papers of others which are distributed in Screenplays/Television Scripts (C), Speeches and Interviews (F), and Translations (G).
This series is arranged into nine subseries: Novels and Novellas, Plays, Short Stories, Nonfiction, Speeches and Interviews, Translations, Teaching Materials, and Juvenilia.
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Included here are notebooks, holograph manuscripts, typescript drafts, and some galleys and page proofs with holograph corrections for the novels La cabeza de la hidra, Cambio de piel, La campaña, Constancia y otras novelas para vírgenes, Cristóbal Nonato, Una familia lejana, Gringo viejo, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, El naranjo, o, Los Círculos del tiempo, La región más transparente, Terra Nostra, and Zona sagrada.
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See under Gringo viejo.
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See also the "Dutch Notebook" with early draft of Zona sagrada, filed under the novel Cambio de piel in this subseries.
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This subseries includes drafts of plays Orquídeas a la luz de la luna, Todos los gatos son pardos, El tuerto es rey, and Ceremonias del alba (a revision by the author of earlier play, Todos los gatos son pardos). Also includes typescript draft of play, Orchids in the Moonlight, English version written by Fuentes, of his play Orquídeas a la luz de la luna.
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English version written by Carlos Fuentes, and first produced at American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Mass., 1982 June 9 For confirmation of Fuentes' authorship of the English version, see Latin America: Plays edited by George W. Woodyard and Marion Peter Holt (New York: PAJ Publications, 1986).
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Includes drafts of screenplays and television scripts written by Fuentes, or in collaboration with others, including "El acoso," "Can You Hear the Dogs Barking," "Las cautivas," "Children of Sanchez," The Buried Mirror TV series, "Juarez," "Mexico, Mexico,""La muerte de Artemio Cruz," "El secreto de las gelatinas," "Traviata-Verdi," and "Zona sagrada"; and drafts of screenplays written by others which are based on Fuentes' books, "Birthdays" by G. Cain, "Aura," and "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" (several versions), "Old Gringo" by Luis Valdez, "Old Gringos" by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, and "Where the Air is Clear" by Percy Granger. Screenplays written by others which are not based on Fuentes' published writings are filed in Papers of Others (Series 8).
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See also translation manuscript with same title by Alfred Mac Adam, filed in Papers of Others (Series 8), Folder "Lor-Nov."
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See following the English version The Buried Mirror.
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Drafts of short stories collected under the titles Agua quemada, Cantar de ciegos, Chac Mool y otros cuentos, Cuerpos y ofrendas, and Los días enmascarados. Includes original typescript manuscript of "Chac Mool," and typescript drafts of "Ciudad perdida," "El costo de la vida," "Cumpleaños," "Nowhere," and other stories. Manuscripts of short stories collected under the titles Constancia y otras novelas para vírgenes, and El naranjo, o, Los Círculos del tiempo are filed under subseries Novels and Novellas (A).
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See under Cantar de ciegos above and Días enmascarados below.
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Consists of manuscripts for nonfiction works such as Casa con dos puertas, Tiempo mexicano, Cervantes, o, La crítica de la lectura, Myself with Others, Geografía de la novela, and Valiente Mundo Nuevo, as well as others.
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Includes drafts, manuscripts, and some galleys and page proofs for nonfiction books Casa con dos puertas, Tiempo mexicano, Cervantes, o, La crítica de la lectura, Myself with Others, Geografía de la novela, and Valiente Mundo Nuevo, The Buried Mirror and Spanish language version El espejo enterrado, unpublished manuscript on Luis Buñuel, unpublished manuscript written for Doubleday; and drafts of other book projects.
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See following The Buried Mirror.
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This subseries, arranged chronologically, includes drafts, prologues and introductions by Fuentes to books written by others; drafts of journalism written for the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times; Mexican periodicals Siempre!, Nexos, and La Jornada; and Spanish publications El País, Cambio 16, and Diario 16. Filed here is manuscript material for the magazine co-edited by Fuentes and E. Carballo, Revista Mexicana de Literatura, dated 1956-1957 This folder includes several short papers of others (probably submissions sent to the editors for publication in the Revista).
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See also Scrapbooks, Clippings, and Printed Material, Series 9 for printed copies of speeches, 1957-1958.
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See also Papers of Others, series 8 for material saved by Fuentes, probably submissions to the Revista.
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For the English translation of "El argumento de América Latina," see Translations, Subseries 2G.
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Consists of speeches and interviews and ranges from Carlos Fuentes' early speech "Grandeza y servidumbre," delivered in 1954, to speech titled "Humanism and Creativity," delivered in 1994. Drafts are in Spanish, English, and French; includes drafts and galleys of commencement address, Harvard University, 6/1983; drafts of acceptance speech for Premio Cervantes, 4/1988; speeches delivered at UNESCO headquarters, 5/1991, and the "Coloquio de Invierno," 2/1992; and speech written for President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari, [1989].
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Material in this section, arranged chronologically, spans 1954 to 1994, and ranges from Carlos Fuentes' early speech "Grandeza y servidumbre," delivered in 1954, to speech titled "Humanism and Creativity," delivered in 1994. Drafts are in Spanish, English, and French; includes drafts and galleys of commencement address, Harvard University, 6/1983; drafts of acceptance speech for Premio Cervantes, 4/1988; speeches delivered at UNESCO headquarters, 5/1991, and the "Coloquio de Invierno," 2/1992; and speech written for President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari, [1989].
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This is Fuentes' introductory speech upon entrance into permanent membership of El Colegio Nacional, México, D.F., México. Related to material of Fuentes' published essay, Cervantes, o, La crítica de la lectura (see under Subseries 2E: Nonfiction Books).
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See related correspondence under Colegio Nacional (1985) in Correspondence (Series 4).
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This section spans 1958 to 1992 and includes draft manuscripts and some printed copies of interviews by others with Fuentes. Included here are interviews with Fuentes when he served as Ambassador to France 1975-1977 several interviews from the 1980s when he resided in Cambridge, Mass.; draft transcript and correspondence with Bill Moyers related to Fuentes' appearance on Bill Moyers' TV show, A World of Ideas, in 1988; and draft manuscript by Fuentes "Respuestas a Julio Ortega," 1989
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Contains typescript drafts, galleys, and page proofs of mostly translations from the Spanish to English of Carlos Fuentes' writings. The translations here are all by other people except for the English translations The Old Gringo, Christopher Unborn, and A New Time for Mexico which are joint efforts of the translators and the author. English translations of short stories are filed under the original Spanish title of the anthology in which the stories were published. This subseries contains manuscripts of translations from Spanish into English and French, and a Xerox copy of a printed translation of the novel Aura in Chinese.
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Drafts of manuscripts of translations from the Spanish into English, Chinese, and French. Included in this section are the draft manuscript, English translation by Lysander Kemp of Aura; drafts of manuscripts and some galleys and page proofs for English translations by Margaret Sayers Peden published as Burnt Water, Distant Relations, The Hydra Head, Inez, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra; manuscripts, French translations by Céline Zins of El tuerto es rey, Ceremonias del alba, and Agua quemada; drafts of manuscripts and some galleys and page proofs for English translations by Alfred J. Mac Adam published as The Campaign, Christopher Unborn, The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories, The Death of Artemio Cruz, Diana, The Goddess Who Hunts Alone, The Orange Tree, and The Years with Laura Díaz; and English translation by Marina Gutman Castañeda published as A New Time for Mexico.
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[See: Additional Material, box 188]
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[See: Additional Material, box 181]
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[See: Additional Material, box 191]
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(lacks pp. 566-567—see repro. proofs in Folder #5).
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[See: Additional Material, box 189-190]
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Includes the manuscript and page proofs for A New Time for Mexico, translated by Marina Gutman Castañeda and the author, and a small amount of material, such as drafts of the English translation of Fuentes' article, "The Argument of Latin America: Words for the North Americans," unidentified translator; and drafts of English translations of La nueva novela hispanoamericana by James E. Miller, Jr. (partial translation), and unidentified.
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Includes drafts and notes for lectures, and syllabi for courses taught by Fuentes at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Washington Universities, and Dartmouth and Bard Colleges; transcribed notes by unidentified students of Fuentes' lectures at Harvard; and miscellaneous grade reports and student recommendations.
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This subseries is arranged chronologically and in three parts: 1. Notebooks, 2. School Notes, and 3. Writings and Drawings. Notebooks include Fuentes' viewed film notebook and notebooks with drafts of early fiction, nonfiction, and juvenile cartoons. The second section includes juvenile work done at schools in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City; and the third section includes fiction and nonfiction written in the '40s and '50s, and some of the author's earliest efforts, e.g., material labeled by the author "Very Early Writings—Chile 1942—Mexico 1949" This section also includes drafts of Fuentes' prize-winning essay written for the law school of UNAM, 1953, and the author's early drawings and cartoons.
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See also law school thesis below in Fiction, Prose, and Verse (3).
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This series, which is arranged chronologically, includes watercolors, oil paintings, and pencil drawings, mostly drawn by the author in the 1940s, and some cartoons from later years. For other juvenile drawings and cartoons, see Juvenilia (Series 2I.).
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This series covers the years from 1944 to 1994 and is arranged alphabetically. Representative correspondents include Mexican, American, British, French and Spanish publishers, literary agents, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Mexico, Latin America, and Europe, and writers, translators, theater directors, and filmmakers. Correspondence with publishers Farrar, Straus & Giroux covers 1963-1993; Éditions Gallimard, 1961-1993; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1961-1993; Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, 1965-1984; and Editorial Seix Barral, 1967-1985. There is also a large amount of correspondence with members of Fuentes' family, especially his mother, Bertha Macías de Fuentes, and father Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, and some correspondence of Carlos Fuentes with friends in the 1950s. Some of the folder titles follow Fuentes' own labels used in filing correspondence. There are many letters from readers and students, filed chronologically, in the folders labeled "Students and Readers."
The author's correspondence with government officials of Mexico and France, in particular, is filed in either of two places—and in a few instances in both—under the corporate body, e.g., Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, or under the person, e.g., Flores Olea, Ambassador Victor. This rule of filing applies also to some literary figures, e.g., editor Ugné Karvelis, whose correspondence is located under Éditions Gallimard, and also under her name. In the finding aid, folders which have corporate body titles are often given an additional description of the main individual correspondent, or correspondents, in parentheses, e.g., Editorial Diana (José Luis Ramírez). If there is more than one folder for the correspondence of a corporate body, the range of dates for each folder is also included.
At the time of processing some correspondence was restricted and therefore, materials reflected via arrangement. These materials have seen been opened. This series is arranged into two subseries, with Subseries 4B containing the materials once restricted.
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This subseries covers the years from 1944 to 1994 and is arranged alphabetically. Representative correspondents include Mexican, American, British, French and Spanish publishers, literary agents, faculty and administrators at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Mexico, Latin America, and Europe, and writers, translators, theater directors, and filmmakers. Correspondence with publishers Farrar, Straus & Giroux covers 1963-1993; Éditions Gallimard, 1961-1993; Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1961-1993; Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, 1965-1984; and Editorial Seix Barral, 1967-1985. There is also a large amount of correspondence with members of Fuentes' family, especially his mother, Bertha Macías de Fuentes, and father Rafael Fuentes Boettiger, and some correspondence of Carlos Fuentes with friends in the 1950s. Some of the folder titles follow Fuentes' own labels used in filing correspondence. There are many letters from readers and students, filed chronologically, in the folders labeled "Students and Readers."
The author's correspondence with government officials of Mexico and France, in particular, is filed in either of two places—and in a few instances in both—under the corporate body, e.g., Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, or under the person, e.g., Flores Olea, Ambassador Victor. This rule of filing applies also to some literary figures, e.g., editor Ugné Karvelis, whose correspondence is located under Éditions Gallimard, and also under her name. In the finding aid, folders which have corporate body titles are often given an additional description of the main individual correspondent, or correspondents, in parentheses, e.g., Editorial Diana (José Luis Ramírez). If there is more than one folder for the correspondence of a corporate body, the range of dates for each folder is also included.
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See also under Novedades.
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See also under ALTI Publishing.
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See also under La Cátedra de América.
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See also under Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores 1978-1992
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See also under Editorial Seix Barral 1967-1975
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See under Knebel, Laura Bergquist.
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See Derek Bok also under Harvard University.
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See under Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency.
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See also under Lefèvre, Jacqueline.
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See also under Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (12950-1955) and Mexico. Permanent Delegations to UN and UNESCO.
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See under El País and International Press Institute.
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See under Figueroa, Gabriel.
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See also under Smithsonian Institution.
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See under Mendoza, María Luisa.
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