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Don Juan and the Nymph: Caricature and Theory of the Image in Diana o la cazadora solitaria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Luz Rodríguez Carranza
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A barbed article by Rafael Lemus on Carlos Fuentes and his work appeared in Letras libres in November 2006. The article offers a fierce critique, but, as Lemus often does, he sees what others do not. His most penetrating remarks about Fuentes, in my view, are the ones that address caricature and, with it, specific work on the image. Thus, “Fuentes returns to his themes and resources, which are classical, and in an effort to sum them up, he caricatures them.” His recent stories “have something anachronistic about them,” and his way of dealing with reality “no longer produces anything but cadavers.”

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 128 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 715 - 719
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Copyright © 2013 by The Modern Language Association of America

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