He was married to film star Rita Macedo from 1959 till 1973, although he was an habitual philanderer and allegedly, his affairs - which he claimed include film actresses such as Jeanne Moreau and Jean Seberg - brought her to despair. In his adolescence, he returned to Mexico, where he lived until 1965. Due to his father being a diplomat, during his childhood he lived in Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. Fuentes influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.įuentes was born in Panama City, Panama his parents were Mexican. Y todo en México es eso: hay que matar a los hombres para poder creer en ellos".Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican writer and one of the best-known novelists and essayists of the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world. Los Aspectos de caridad, amor y la otra mejilla, en cambio, son rechazados. Y liturgia, se vuelve una prolongación natural y novedosa de la religión indígena. Pero un Dios al que no le basta que se sacrifiquen por él,sino que incluso va a que le arranquen el corazón, ¡caramba, jáque mate aĮl cristianismo, en su sentido cálido, sangriento, de sacrificio No es concebible que nuestros índios veneraran a un individuo ¿Qué cosa más natural que aceptar un sentimiento tan cercano a todo tu ceremonial, a toda tu vida?.įigúrate, en cambio, que México hubiera sido conquistado por Llegan los españoles y te proponen adores a un Dios, muerto hecho un coágulo, com el costado herido, clavado en una "Que sino fuera mexicano, no adoraria a Cristo,y-No, mira,parece evidente. Now that Filiberto is dead, he's believed.Ī mild dark story with some interesting reflections on Mexico's distant and more recent past. At the door step he meets one yellowish Indian, of a “repulsive look”, who tells him….he knows about it all, he can take Filiberto’s body to the cellar. The narrator, now in charge of the body of Filiberto and his funeral, decides he’s got to visit the old house, presumably empty. So, one night he escapes, heading towards Acapulco, the Müllers cheap inn. The “dark” house has neither water nor electricity no bills paid.įiliberto fears the creature may become human. Soon Filiberto will become a prisoner of this creature who leaves at night to catch cats and dogs for his subsistence. Chac Mool avanzó hacia la cama entonces empezó a llover”.įriendly first, the creature tells old stories (of plants, deserts and equatorial rains) to Filiberto…but it will become demanding, …slapping the house owner,…threatening him to kill him with a thunder ray. Los dientes inferiores, mordiendo el labio superior, inmóviles sólo el brillo del casquetón cuadrado sobre la cabeza anormalmente voluminosa, delataba vida*. Me paralizaban los dos ojillos, casi bizcos muy pegados a la nariz triangular. ”Allí estaba Chac Mool, erguido, sonriente, ocre, con su barriga encarnada. Things got strange: unexplained yells/lamentations, at night, heard,…flooding in the cellar where the statue lies…and after several days: the statue taking a life of its own: from stone texture to flesh …Chac Mool is alive now. The diary tells the narrator that the secretary had bought an Aztec statue called Chac Mool (he had this hobby of collecting them) which he took to his old house. He’d been expelled from his job as secretary, for the reasons of theft and madness (namely an offer to make it rain in the desert). The diary is the major source for the reconstruction of the story: what really happened to Filiberto. The narrator is a friend of 40 year old Filiberto, a man found dead, drowned in Acapulco.įiliberto had been lodged in the Müller’s inn, a cheap one…and his remaining items consist of 200 pesos, a newspaper, lottery tickets and a diary. It made me recall of Poe and Meyrink's The Golem Įnough magic in it and some suspense till the very end of this dark short story. Their symbolism placed them on the frontier between the physical and supernatural realms, as intermediaries with the gods." From the Wiki "Aztec chacmools bore water imagery and were associated with Tlaloc, the rain god.
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