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This collection consists of personal and working papers of Carlos Fuentes,
Mexican author, editor, and diplomat: notebooks, manuscripts of novels and
novellas, short stories, plays, screenplays, nonfiction writings, speeches and
interviews, translations of fiction and nonfiction, correspondence, juvenilia,
drawings, documents, photographs, audiocassettes, papers of others, scrapbooks,
and printed material. Included are manuscripts and some galleys and page proofs
with holograph corrections of the novels La cabeza de la
hidra, Cambio de piel, La campaña, Constancia y otras
novelas para vírgenes, Cristóbal Nonato,
Una familia lejana, Gringo viejo, La muerte de Artemio
Cruz, El naranjo, o los círculos del tiempo,
La región más transparente, and Terra Nostra; draft manuscripts and some galleys and
page proofs for the English translations of the novels listed above, and for
novels Aura, Diana, The
Goddess Who Hunts Alone, The Years with Laura
Diaz, and Inez. There are also drafts of
short stories collected under the titles Agua
quemada, Cantar de ciegos, Chac Mool y otros cuentos, Cuerpos y ofrendas and Los días
enmascarados; drafts of plays Todos los gatos
son pardos, El tuerto es rey and Orchids in the Moonlight (English and Spanish
versions); drafts of program scripts for the television series The Buried Mirror, and Spanish language version El espejo enterrado; and drafts of the companion
books to the TV series.The collection also includes drafts of screenplays written by Fuentes, or in
collaboration with others, such as “Children of Sanchez,” “Juarez,” and a film
about Luis Buñuel; and many manuscripts of screenplays written by others,
several of which are adaptations of Fuentes' books, such as “Aura” by Serge
Sandor, “Birthdays” by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and “Old Gringo” by Luis
Valdez. The Nonfiction and Speeches and Interviews subseries are extensive and
include a wide variety of journalism written for major newspapers and magazines
in the U.S., Mexico, and Spain and for other publications. Speechs include
Fuentes' Harvard University commencement address, and his acceptance speech for
the Premio Cervantes [literary prize] delivered in 1983 and 1988,
respectively.The papers also include correspondence with translators and drafts of many
translations of Fuentes' writings. Included are typescript drafts, galleys, and
page proofs of translations by Margaret Sayers Peden of several of Fuentes'
novels, including Terra Nostra. Correspondence
between Peden and Fuentes spans the period 1971-1990; correspondence with Céline
Zins, primary translator of Fuentes' writings into French, is also extensive and
spans 1970 to 1992.The Correspondence series covers the period 1944-1994, and includes letters from
family members and a wide range of publishers, literary agents, artists,
filmmakers, and politicians.There are letters received and letters sent by Fuentes to Latin American writers,
including Alfonso Reyes, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Juan Carlos Onetti, and to
writers of the “Boom” in Latin American fiction, such as Cabrera Infante, José
Donoso, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Some of
the Mexican writers represented in the collection are Octavio Paz, José Emilio
Pacheco, Elena Garro, Elena Poniatowska, Fernando Benítez, Ramón Xirau, María
Luisa Mendoza, and Carlos Monsiváis.There is also extensive correspondence with international writers Harold Pinter,
Milan Kundera, Vasiles Vasilikos, Italo Calvino, Régis Debray, Philip Roth,
Norman Mailer, and William Styron, among others, and with filmmakers and film
producers, including Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, Manuel Barbachano Ponce, and
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The series also includes correspondence with literary
agents and publishers that documents the financial and public success of
Fuentes' career. Some of the publishers and literary agents represented are
Brandt & Brandt, Carmen Balcells/Agencia Literaria, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, Fondo de CulturaEconómica, and Editorials Joaquín Mortiz and Seix
Barral. Publishing executives include Carlos Barral, Joaquín Díez-Canedo, Claude
Gallimard, José Luis Martínez, Arnaldo Orfila Reynal, and Roger W. Straus, Jr.
Correspondence with Farrar, Straus & Giroux covers the period 1963-1993 and
includes contracts and other publishing documents. There is also a large amount
of correspondence with students and readers, covering the period 1962-1994.The collection also includes juvenile writings and drawings from the 1940s and
early 1950s, and other miscellaneous cartoons and drawings. There are
photographs of Carlos Fuentes and others, miscellaneous documents, and
audiocassettes and videcassettes of the author's readings speeches, and other
presentations.The Papers of Others series includes manuscripts by a wide variety of Latin
American and American writers, including a one-act play by Octavio Paz and short
stories by Juan Rulfo and Julio Cortázar; copies of several doctoral
dissertations and other theses on Carlos Fuentes; and a typescript draft and
page proofs of a book edited by Cintio Vitier, Antología
de la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea (1925-1955).There is a large amount of printed material both by the author and about the
author in the Scrapbooks, Clippings, and Printed Material series. There are
clippings and articles in many languages and from publications around the world.
Articles include essays, book reviews, interviews, and bibliographies of the
author's work. There are 27 scrapbooks, compiled by the author, which contain
clippings, memorabilia, and photographs. The series also includes Christmas
cards, invitations, maps, menus, and lecture and conference programs.