339 page. Black-cloth cover, minimal edge-wear. Illustrated, unclipped jacket, slight chipping and denting to top edge otherwise minor edge-wear, several small marks. Seconds mark to bottom edge of closed pages, small mark on front closed pages, otherwise pages clean, straight & unmarked. Strong, intact binding. ". an A-Z of the things that Carlos Fuentes loves and believes in . a series of inspired meditations and polemics . subjects as disparate as 'Balzac', 'Beauty', 'Reading', 'Revolution' 'Sex' and 'Shakespeare' . woven together with . politics, time and language . runs the vein of his personal journey."

MEXICO,  MEXICAN  LITERATURE,  AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  POLITICS,  LOVE,  SEX,  PHILOSOPHY,  LANGUAGE,  KAFKA,  WITTGENSTEIN,  CERVANTES,  FAULKNER,  VELAZQUEZ