Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as “one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world” and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the “explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and ’70s,” while The Guardian called him “Mexico’s most celebrated novelist.” His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico’s highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999). He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won. (Wikipedia)
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- Fuentes, Carlos. The Old Gringo. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden and Carlos Fuentes. London: Picador, 1987.
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- Bierce, Ambrose. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Ed. David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
- Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Trans. James Strachey. New York:
Norton, 1961. - Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Marxists Internet Archive.
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trans. Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse. New York: Grove, 1965.
Tequila is a liquor made by distilling fermented juice taken from the agave plant, mostly in the state of Jalisco, west of Mexico City. It has become a symbol of mexicanidad or Mexicanness, especially after the Revolution, as the country sought a new national iconography. Advertising and popular culture associated the drink particularly with Pancho Villa, an image that was picked up and turned around by the US media, who depicted the revolutionary general as a drunken bandit. (In fact, Villa barely touched alcohol, and outlawed it in his home state of Chihuahua.) In The Old Gringo, however, the only characters who are shown drinking tequila are the foreigners, Winslow and the old gringo himself, who bond in their shared Americanness over this most Mexican of libations: Winslow is described as “a North American woman [facing] the prospect of a comforting glass at dusk with a fellow American” (64-65). It is as they consume Mexican difference that the two of them can best see what they both have in common.
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