Overview
En 'Cumpleaños' confluyen no sólo las ideas sobre el arte de narrar el tiempo que Carlos Fuentes ha acuñado y cultivado a lo largo de su fructífera creativa. También están allí, en bruto o en plenitud, sus técnicas, o por mejor decir, la técnica. Los cómos y los por qué, el modus operandi del crimen fuentesiano.—Ignacio Padilla
Aparecida en 1969, Cumpleaños, es una novela corta de Carlos Fuentes que refleja, como anteriormente lo hiciera Aura, las tendencias de la literatura latinoamericana de la época. Una novela de la subjetividad.
Un cuarto que es también una casa, una ciudad, un mundo. Allí, un viejo, una mujer y un niño forman una Trinidad en las profundidades de un instante. El tiempo es el verdadero espacio narrativo de esta novela; su relato no fue, es ni será, ya que está siendo encarnado en identidades canjeables, porque la continuidad es la resurrección.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“Ideas on the art of relating a time that Carlos Fuentes coined and cultivated throughout his fructiferous creative career converge in Birthday. Also there, unpolished or in full bloom, we see his techniques, or rather, the technique. The hows and the whys, the modus operandi of Fuentes’ crime.” —Ignacio Padilla
Published in 1969, Birthday is a novella by Carlos Fuentes that reflects—the same way Aura did previously—the literary tendencies in Latin America at that time. A novel about subjectivity.
A room is also a house, a city, a world. There, an old man, a woman, and a child form a Trinity in the depths of an instant. Time is the real narrative space in this novel. Its tale was not, is not, and will not be, for it is being incarnate in interchangeable identities, since continuity is resurrection.
Aparecida en 1969, Cumpleaños, es una novela corta de Carlos Fuentes que refleja, como anteriormente lo hiciera Aura, las tendencias de la literatura latinoamericana de la época. Una novela de la subjetividad.
Un cuarto que es también una casa, una ciudad, un mundo. Allí, un viejo, una mujer y un niño forman una Trinidad en las profundidades de un instante. El tiempo es el verdadero espacio narrativo de esta novela; su relato no fue, es ni será, ya que está siendo encarnado en identidades canjeables, porque la continuidad es la resurrección.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“Ideas on the art of relating a time that Carlos Fuentes coined and cultivated throughout his fructiferous creative career converge in Birthday. Also there, unpolished or in full bloom, we see his techniques, or rather, the technique. The hows and the whys, the modus operandi of Fuentes’ crime.” —Ignacio Padilla
Published in 1969, Birthday is a novella by Carlos Fuentes that reflects—the same way Aura did previously—the literary tendencies in Latin America at that time. A novel about subjectivity.
A room is also a house, a city, a world. There, an old man, a woman, and a child form a Trinity in the depths of an instant. Time is the real narrative space in this novel. Its tale was not, is not, and will not be, for it is being incarnate in interchangeable identities, since continuity is resurrection.
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