I need commentaries, critics, articles, anything that talks or
discusses the book Las Buenas Conciencias by Carlos Fuentes.

gordi,

There was precious little online information about this book,
especially in English. There was somewhat more in Spanish, and if you
read and understand Spanish, please let me know via an answer
clarification, and I will research more in Spanish for you.

“Las Buenas Conciencias”known in English as “The Good Conscience”, :
Noonday Press; ISBN: 0374507368; (March 1987) as you know, was written
by Carlos Fuentes, Cervantes Prize winner. In the book “Las Buenas
Consciencias” Jaime Ceballos, adopted son of religious family, sets
out to imitate Christ...but there are those who are threatened by such
integrity.

Sara Davis, in the Senior Symposium Class of 2001, Mount Alvernia High
School, Massachusetts, writes:
“In The Good Conscience, the past society represents the truth and the
present society represents hypocrisy. In this book, Fuentes portrays
the differences between people in the hypocritical society in the city
of Guanajuato and the ancestors, the former residents, who followed
tradition and the truth. Jaime, one character, is caught between
hypocrisy and truth. His dreams about his ancestors represent the
past, which is symbolic of the truth.”
http://www.mountalverniahs.org/Mahs/Symposium/2001/ss01det.asp?ID=10

A review from the New York Times
http://partners.nytimes.com/books/97/10/26/home/fuente-conscience.html

The Good Conscience (Las Buenas Conciencias), Carlos Fuentes
Amazon.com review
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374507368/ref%3Dnosim/sealarksgoodbook/002-3948260-4370448#product-details


About Carlos Fuentes
http://www.embamex.co.uk/update/june98/crystal.html

I ‘m unable to refrain from mentioning that I once met Carlos Fuentes!
I was working at Duke University, about 9-10 years ago, and had just
finished reading his most recent book at the time, “The Buried Mirror.
When I read in the Duke “Chronicle” that Fuentes would be at a book
signing in the Gothic Bookstore, I was thrilled, and surreptitiously
ran my book over to have him sign it. I even got to chat with him for
a few minutes. That night, he was speaking on campus, and naturally, I
went to hear him. After an introduction by Ariel Dorfman, Carlos
Fuentes came down the aisle, from the back of the auditorium. I was
more than pleasantly surprised when he stopped, placed his hand on my
shoulder and greeted me by name! He spoke that night on his book “The
Buried Mirror”, which is an analysis of symbolism in Latin America and
Spain, and I hung on every word!


If you would like me to research this topic in Spanish, or if anything
is unclear, please let me know.

Good Luck.
Regards, crabcakes

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Request for Answer Clarification by gordi-ga on 18 Oct 2002 13:22 PDT

I am particularly interested in critics about the book in Spanish.
Articles will be great. Thanks for your help.

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Clarification of Answer by crabcakes-ga on 18 Oct 2002 14:24 PDT

gordi, Thanks for the 5 stars. We researchers really like to add stars
to our collection!
I will be adding the Spanish reviews  this afternoon!
~crabcakes

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Clarification of Answer by crabcakes-ga on 18 Oct 2002 16:54 PDT

gordi, 

Here is a bit in Spanish as well:


Por Fuentes ser un escritor tan celebrado, existe poco de "Las Buenas
Conciencias" en español tampoco

http://www.exodusltd.com/estantes/comentarios/buenas_conciencias/buenas_conciencias.html

“En Las buenas conciencias (1959) explora otra vena más realista
(véase Realismo) y planea una nueva comedia humana mexicana.”
http://icarito.tercera.cl/enc_virtual/castella/escritores/fuentes.html

http://carlos-fuentes.tripod.com/buenas.html

Estos son cuestionarios o examenes, pero el clave esta al fin de la
página!
http://lectura.ilce.edu.mx:3000/sites/telesec/curso3/htmla/sec_22.html
http://lectura.ilce.edu.mx:3000/sites/telesec/curso3/htmla/sec_17.html

http://www.librusa.com/catalog/items/item306.htm

http://www.fce.com.ar/fsfce.asp?p=http://www.fce.com.ar/detalleslibro.asp?IDL=671


Algo de Carlos Fuentes:
http://www.submarino.com.mx/libros/camerinos/cfuentes.asp

http://www.ffil.uam.es/pyr/sintesis.htm

http://www.dlh.lahora.com.ec/paginas/artesanteriores/31060421/paginas/cultura2.htm

Espero que le ayudó más!
Ciao, crabcakes

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Request for Answer Clarification by gordi-ga on 21 Oct 2002 09:04 PDT

I am afraid you did not get my second message. I requested if you
could find information in Spanish about this book. Particularly, I am
looking for articles that talk about it, or any other literary critics
that I can use as reference. Please let me know.
Gordi-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by gordi-ga on 21 Oct 2002 09:26 PDT

Please disregard my last message. I did not see that you had answered
my second request. Thanks a lot. Gracias.

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Clarification of Answer by crabcakes-ga on 21 Oct 2002 20:36 PDT

I'm glad you saw the Spanish addition, and I hope it is helpful. I was
surprised not to have found more about this book. I have not read it,
but I enjoyed others by Fuentes.
Regards,
crabcakes