The Crystal Frontier edition by Carlos Fuentes Literature Fiction eBooks
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Young Jose Francisco grows up in Texas, determined to write about the border world - the immigrants and illegals, Mexican poverty and Yankee prosperity - stories to break the stand-off silence with a victory shout, to shatter at last the crystal frontier.
The Crystal Frontier edition by Carlos Fuentes Literature Fiction eBooks
Reading it side by side with the Spanish version, the translation is very choppy (seems like it was cranked out of google translate) and many punctuation marks and quotation marks are missing. But you can understand the story and ideas. However, if you know Spanish read the Spanish version.Product details
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The Crystal Frontier edition by Carlos Fuentes Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This collection of short stories by Carlos Fuentes was a great way of gaining various perspectives on culture clashing among the US - Mexico border. It also presented both an overarching view of how the US infiltrates Mexican society infiltrates US society and so on, as well as how the wealthy of both countries are profiting off of the laboring poor of Mexico. While this part of it was very political and had a clear and obvious opinion, I still enjoyed exploring that voice and gaining a human perspective on an ever going political debate. More than that, I must confess, I am a fan of magical realism. Fuentes is one of the better ones at it, and I love reading his work for this reason, among others. The third story of this collection, "Spoils", is the only one that doesn't relate to the loose storyline of the other eight. While I know it is an exercise in taking magical realism to the extreme and poking fun at how ridiculous some writers are about it while still being told how amazing their stories are, it still ended up being one of my favorites of the book and I think it had a lot to offer on the effects of consumerism in terms of value shifts on quantity verses quality. While I disagree that one should write simply to make fun of technique and would do better to be sure to put forth excellent examples of a technique in their writings of other things instead, I am inclined to give Fuentes the benefit of the doubt on this one and say making fun of extreme cases of magical realism was a very minor point of the story. Other stories in this collection contain characters that range from all generations and social classes of Mexico. These stories at times artfully describe the interactions of people who are just ordinary people on either side of the border, capable of human connections and love in spite of things like cultural, national, and political boundaries between people and countries. Conversely, it also does well in highlighting the many disconnects and prejudices experienced between people across these boundary lines. I would recommend this book to people interested in the many ways the human experience can be, well, experienced and the various ways the lives of individuals can be controlled or influenced by ideas and people in power.
The master Mexican story teller has assembled stories of interconnected lives on the on the Tex-Mex border. The stories are loosely interconnected in that a few characters appear in more than one story and most have some connection to a Mexican “Master of the Universe” -- a multimillionaire mover and shaker who can make and break lives. We learn a lot about the politics, economics and sociology of the US-Mexican interrelationship, to the point where at times the lesson seems a bit heavy-handed and the story suffers – a kind of “…before we go on, I’m going to explain the bracero program to you.”
But we get some good stories. The Mexican Donald Trump character entices a beautiful woman to marry his socially inept son, whom he genuinely loves, and yet he thinks nothing of keeping her for his mistress as well. Obviously the rules don’t apply to him. One poignant moment that sticks with me is when a Mexican window washer flirts through the glass with a beautiful gringa lawyer and she writes her name in lipstick on the window “Audrey,” and he writes “Mexican” and walks away. There are stories about the perils of the border crossing, the life of women in the maquiladoras (border factories), and the special burden of being a Mexican-American if you are a US border guard (“…gonna let all your friends and relatives slip through, aren’t you?”) A young gay Mexican man lives with a very Republican American family while at Cornell and the mother of the family never refers to their guest as Mexican “…because she is afraid of offending him.” The young man has a heartbreaking relationship with an American man. Good stories.
A great writer
An achingly beautiful, haunting series of interwoven stories...people I know, people I can imagine. Viewing events through the eyes of different people was reminiscent of Kurasawa's Rashomon. As a sucker for short stories, my favorite was the title piece.
I recommend it.
A wonderful take on the border, migration and real people's lives.
Tedious novel in the form of nine linked stories shows Mexican life from multiple angles, none too flattering. The crystal frontier of the title is, of course, the U.S.-Mexican border; what matters here is less the border as geopolitical fact and more its impact on the Mexican psyche. The author aims his barbs at both sides of the border; there's little surprising here except perhaps for the portrayal of a disdainful Mexican upper class that couldn't care less about how the other half lives or whether it lives or starves. Book clubs will find this a useful tool for stirring up discussion on the illegal drug and immigration issues whether they read through to the end or not; those who do will be rewarded with a chapter written half in normal prose and half in surreal fragmentary lines of poetry, the effect of which is not unlike sitting through a Tarkovsky double-feature.
Reading it side by side with the Spanish version, the translation is very choppy (seems like it was cranked out of google translate) and many punctuation marks and quotation marks are missing. But you can understand the story and ideas. However, if you know Spanish read the Spanish version.
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