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Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won’t mind a few disappearances? “Vlad” is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram... read more
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“The abyss in God’s understanding is his awareness that he is still unfinished. But if God were finished, his creation would end with him. The world cannot be the simple legacy of a dead God. Ha, a retired God, collecting a pension. Imagine the world as a circle of corpses, a heap of ashes . . . No, the world must be the endless work of an unfinished God.”
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"I wouldn't trouble you, Navarro, if Davila and Uriarte were available."
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- Carlos Fuentes (Author)
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- Alejandro Branger (Translator)
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Original Language: Spanish
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Page Count: 122
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