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FUENTES, CARLOS. THE BURIED MIRROR: REFLECTIONS ON SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD. BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, 1992. 399 PP. ILLUSTRATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX. $19.93 PAPER.
In The Buried Mirror, as the Washington Post so aptly put it, Mexico's great savant and man of letters, Carlos Fuentes, "takes us on a breathtaking and marvelously illustrated journey across time and space." Few writers possess Fuentes's breadth of knowledge and the raw courage to undertake such a daunting synthesis of art, literature, anthropology, and history. In less than 400 pages, the reader is transported from Greek, Carthaginian, and Roman Spain to contemporary Latin America.
The result is a joy to read, but specialists will flinch at the author's liberties with facts.
One of the primary obligations of a historian is to set the...