Estrella de dos puntas

A chronicle of the long friendship between Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes, from their meeting in Paris in 1950 to its loud end in 1988, built from first-hand witnesses, unpublished letters, official files and declassified papers. In the 1950s the two worked together on the Revista Mexicana de Literatura and Poesía en Voz Alta; in 1968 they stood together against the regime behind the Tlatelolco massacre; and Fuentes wrote often for Paz's magazines Plural and Vuelta. The break came when Vuelta printed Enrique Krauze's harsh essay on Fuentes, but the book traces earlier rifts: the suspicion that a character in Fuentes's first novel mocked Paz, and the frictions over founding Plural. Around them appear the intellectuals and politicians who shaped Mexico in the twentieth century.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Mexico

First published

2020 by Ariel

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9786075690124 (original)