Carlos
Fuentes (November 11, 1928 - May 15, 2012) ranks as the most acclaimed
modern novelist in Mexico and one of the central figures in Latin
America’s literary "Boom,” a generation that consists of Julio Cortázar,
Gabriel García Márquez and, among others, Mario Vargas Llosa. Raised
in a family that represented Mexico’s economic and diplomatic interests
in Latin America and in the United States, Fuentes was an
award-winning novelist often associated with questions of national
identity, historical origins, Mexico’s capital as a megacity, and the
unresolved conflicts--with Spain, with the United States, and with
itself--that define Mexico as a modern nation....
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