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Saturday, December 06, 2014

Thomas Piketty, El Capital según Carlos Fuentes

Una militante del PT con una camiseta de Dilma Rousseff en Brasilia
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En 1865, Karl Marx afirmó que fue leyendo a Balzac como más aprendió sobre el capitalismo y el poder del dinero. En 2014 uno tendería a decir lo mismo: basta con actualizar los autores y los países. En La voluntad y la fortuna, un magnífico lienzo publicado en 2008, pocos años antes de su muerte, Carlos Fuentes hace un retrato edificante del capitalismo mexicano y de las violencias sociales y económicas por las que atraviesa su país, a punto de convertirse en la narconaciónque hoy cubre las primeras planas de los periódicos.

Thomas Piketty sobre Carlos Fuentes y su La voluntad y la fortuna en El País:


(quizá Engels hizo esa afirmación, no Marx: a veces incluso Piketty puede estar equivocado, nadie es perfecto)


(Thomas Piketty)

(Carlos Fuentes)

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

A Few Words about Carlos Fuentes

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Death awaits the bravest, the richest, the most beautiful.  But death makes them equal to the most cowardly, the poorest, the ugliest, not in the simple fact of dying, not even in knowing death, but in the ignorance of death.  We know that it will come one day, but we never know what it is.



Jill Rapaport has a superb little story about Carlos Fuentes:

I once went to hear Carlos Fuentes read; it was spur of the moment and I didn't happen to have any of his books with me; they invited listeners to come up at the end and have their books autographed and since I wanted to meet him, I went up with the novel I was reading, a cheap paperback edition of Middlemarch. I sort of apologized for having only this when it was my turn to shake hands with him, but he was really nice about it and took the book from me and said something like "Yes, as I remember, this was a very good novel." And he signed it. It was the only time I'd ever tried to get an autograph from anybody.


And here is video showing Carlos Fuentes in a visit to a famous place in Veracruz: el Gran Café de la Parroquia.







(Jill Rapaport)

(Una Vida Entre Libros)

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