“The Mexican revolution was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.” TryingPastBlackBreakRevolutionDenyAcceptedIndianHeritageMexicoMexicanOver The PastMexican Revolution Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.” YearsBookPastForeverAchieveDisappearListsFiftyExceptionPopularityLivelyGraveyard Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Most writers in Mexico have had posts as ambassadors, secretaries - that is no longer the case. Now a writer can live off writing. He has an audience: there are publishing houses, there are newspapers - so the situation is not as terrible as it used to be when there were no means and he had to go into government service, be an ambassador or a cabinet minister, etc. So, things are changing in the sense that the civil society is now the protagonist. The writer therefore occupies a different position, but no less influential than in the past, in a new, democratic society.” WritingMeanDifferentPastHouseSituationAudienceTerribleDemocraticPublishingSecretaryInfluentialCivil Society Author:Carlos Fuentes
“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.” PastFormCreationTraditionNoveltyVariation Author:Carlos Fuentes
“You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.” IfsKnowsLooksHappensEyePastRememberLyingBehindsHalfDarknessKnow HowHappenedYesterdayUsualBedroom Author:Carlos Fuentes
