By Carlos Fuentes . Translated by Thomas Christensen. By Carlos Fuentes. Translated by Thomas Christensen. Each of them is bizarre, a tale lingered over by the teller to the point at which, if he were to stay with it a moment longer, he would have to explain everything, and ruin it.
Nothing is explained.
We may interpret each story as we choose, but we cannot call on the teller to endorse our choice. Mr. Fuentes has shown himself willing to write a straightforward novel. But Mr. Fuentes writes such a book as if with one hand. His major fictions are projects of the bizarre and the uncanny. He is not content for long to gratify one's sense of the usual, or one's prejudice in its favor.