Carlos Fuentes’ Smile

Carlos Fuentes smile On covert of El Angel, on top of the Monumento a la Revolucion, on top of the Catedral, Carlos Fuentes was always on top. When he was young, he was afraid of height even in June 1959, atthe era ofthe Cubanrevolution, in the same plane as General Cardenas, he asked Do you think it is going to f any? We are already speedy high. Since he was child, he was destined to be on top. He had clean published Where the Air Is slide by, which caused uproar in Mexico City.Back then, all the writers wrote hapless stories. The sad Revolution with its useless massacre, the sad province in which the guava scatter was cooked slowlyly in a perol, as Agustin Yanez wrote the sad leaders shadow and of all who had made the Revolution and now, in a luxurious office, they ignored the slow but steady push of their tummy. At this point, Fuentes made burst, he changed our sensitive world as the Paricutin would have made and he reminded us that we had guts. He always has it.With an ambitious, audacious, agile, and elegant step, he was on the stage in unmatchable jump. He always was in a hurry, he always tweak up courage. The word always seemstodo pretty wellto Fuentes and so we can tell to Silvia and Cecilia, in order and with a deafening and strong voice, that Fuentes provide always live wherever his books are, he will be always with us and that that arent words of encouragement, they are a reality. I see him in the distance, standing I see him here, beside me, he smiled.His smile was the smile of his father, don Rafael Fuentes, that following the publicationof Where the Air Is Clear he said Now Im the father of Carlos Fuentes. totally surrender by the raindrops of Jalapa, that city where the grass grows up among the rocks Fuentes was from Veracruz from head to toe, from Veracruz with its table-glass unspoiled of cafe con leche from the Cafe de la Parroquia that the waiters filled and refilled at the effective of the spoon, ding, ding, ding, homogeneo us in a Cri-Cris song1, as ifwewereallchild without the Original sin.Fuentes was kind of like that, he had an inner childthat was likethe apple ofhis eyes, his eyes shone, within his eyes there was his vigor, his excitement, his desire of flatter everything, his love for Mexico. His eyes cast sparks because Fuentes was a seducer, but as Angeles Mastretta said, a trustful seducer. 1 Mexican composer and performer of childrens songs, best know under the name ofCri-Cri El Grillito Cantor.