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Delivered in 1983, the text connects early life in Panama and Mexico City with diplomacy and education, then traces how Latin American, North American, and European experiences informed his first novels. Personal birth narratives and literary influences are used to explain a central creative stance: being Mexican by will and imagination.","A Writer from Mexico  \nCARLOS FUENTES  \nTHE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES  \nDelivered at The University of Utah  \nMay 3 and 4, 1983  \nCARLOS FUENTES, novelist and playwright, lived and studied in countries around the world as the son of a career diplomat and Mexican ambassador to Holland, Panama, Portugal, and Italy. He was educated at the University of Mexico and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. Later, as a diplomat himself, Mr. Fuentes continued his travels as secretary to the Mexican member of the United Nations International Law Commission in Geneva, as director of International Cultural Relations for Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and eventually as Mexican ambassador to France.  \nMr. Fuentes has written prolifically from a perspective of three distinct cultures, he explains—LatinAmerican,´North American, and European. His experience in New Deal America, wartime Chile and Argentina, then Mexico and Europe provided rich breeding ground for his first novels, and he also credits writers Alfonso Reyes and Octavio Paz of Mexico, Pablo Neruda of Chile, and writers of the post-war generation in Europe with providing important contributions to his own development.  \nI  \nI was born on November 11, 1928, under the sign I would have chosen anyway, Scorpio, and on a date shared with Dostoevsky, Cromelynk and Vonnegut. My mother was rushed from asteaming movie house in those days before Colonel Buendia took his son to discover ice in the tropics. She was seeing King Vidor’s version of La Bohéme with John Gilbert and Lillian Gish. Perhaps the pangs of my birth were provoked by this anomaly: a silent screen version of Puccini’s opera. Since then the operatic and the cinematographic have tugged at war with my words, as if expecting that the Scorpio of fiction shall rise from silent music and from blind images.  \nAll of this, let me add to clear up my biography, took place in the sweltering heat of Panama City, where my father was beginning his diplomatic career as an attaché to the Mexican Legation (in those days, Embassies were established only in the most important capitals, no place where the mean average year-round temperature was in the perpetual nineties) . Since my father was a convinced Mexican nationalist, the problem of where I should be born had to be resolved under the sign, not of Scorpio, but of the Eagle and the Serpent. Yet the Mexican Legation, although it had extraterritorial rights, did not even have a territorial midwife; and the minister, a fastidious bachelor from Sinaloa called Ignacio Norris, who resembled the poet Quevedo as one pince-nez resembles another, would have none of me suddenly appearing on the Legation parquet, even if the Angel Gabriel had announced me asa future Mexican writer of some, although debatable, merit.  \nSo if I could not be born in a fictitious, extraterritorial Mexico, neither would I be born in that even more fictitious extension of the United States of America, the Canal Zone, where the best hos-  \n4 The Tanner Lectures on Human Values  \npitals, naturally, were. So between two territorial fictions and a mercifully silent close-up of John Gilbert, I arrived in the nick of time at the Gorgas Hospital in Panama City at eleven o’clock that night.  \nThe problem of my baptism then arose. As if the waters of the two nearby oceans touching one another through the iron fingertips of the Canal were not enough, I had to undergo a double ceremony: my religious baptism took place in Panama, because my mother, a devout Roman Catholic, demanded it with as much urgency as Tristram Shandy’s parents, although with less original methods. My nationalist baptism, however, took place a few months later in Mexico City, where my father, an incorrigible Jacobin and priest-eater until the end, insisted that I be registered in the civil books established by Benito Juárez. 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