A Brief Biography of Carlos Fuentes

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Carlos Fuentes
Who was Carlos Fuentes? Carlos Fuentes was one of the most recognized Mexican writers. Fuentes most distinguished by his talent of writing about countries, for his strength, passion of writing, and for the great person he was. Fuentes left a legend in the Mexican and Latin children. His father Rafael Fuentes Boettiger and mother Bertha Macias Rivas. Fuentes father was a Mexican diplomat and Representative of Mexico. His father became the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D. C. Between the inauguration of Citizen Roosevelt in 1930s (Carlos Fuentes 4). During Fuentes childhood he had travel all over the job his father had including “Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; and Quito, Ecuador (Daniel de Guzman 61). Fuentes spent the majority of his life travelling from a place to another. Throughout his stay in Washington D.C. when Fuentes was four years old his parents sent him to a school where he learned English and became fluent in the language. Fuentes also attended to schools in Mexico as a child. Every summer he would travel to Mexico and attended to Spanish speaking schools, and after the summer vacations returned home. When he was sixteen years old he decided to leave Washington and start his life in Mexico. Since he was a kid he already loved poetry, and wanted a carrier in writing, but his parents wanted him to study Law. Fuentes parents influenced him to get into the legal profession just like his parents did. Several years later he graduated from “National University of Mexico in Mexico City, Law School” (Daniel de Guzman 61), and later attended the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva, where he also learned French. When he graduated he stated worki...

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...I did not come here to work I came here to study, but I’m doing it in a different county. One of his quotes states that
“There is no freedom, but the pursuit of freedom, and the search is what make us free” ( Fuentes)
Carlos Fuentes was a great Author that left a great legend and a great example of the reality of the Mexico we have now, and the separation of Mexico and the United States. Though his books he left a message to all his readers, about the real life and how cruel life can be with one another and the sacrifice that we have to do for a better future.

Bibliography
De Guzmán, Daniel. Carlos Fuentes. New York: Twayne, 1972. Print.
Fuentes, Carlos. Myself with Others: Selected Essays. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988. Print
Fuentes, Carlos. The Crystal Frontier: A Novel in Nine Stories. Orlando: Harvest Book, 1998. Print.

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