ISBN10: 0374217505, ISBN13: 9780374217501, [publisher: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. Signed. 214 pages. Published in 1988. The author's debut collection of essays originally written in English. One of Carlos Fuentes' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Carlos Fuentes' "Myself With Others: Selected Essays". Insightful, absorbing, and simply enjoyable essays originally written in English, the first - and only one - for a writer - and any other Latin-American writer - whose entire body of work is otherwise in Spanish. As such, it is the work of a Latin-American Master who is a true cosmopolitan. Dedicated to fellow writer Philip Roth (and his then-wife, the actress Claire Bloom), the essays recount the story of one writer's development, and evaluates the work of other writers and artists who have had an indelible influence on him. They include such masterpieces as "How I Started To Write", "How I Wrote One of My Books" (which reads like a detective story), "Borges In Action", "Gabriel Garcia Marquez And The Invention of America", "Luis Bunuel And The Cinema of Freedom", and his celebrated Harvard Commencement Address (Fuentes ...
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