During a trip to Puerto Rico to receive an honorary doctorate, Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, 81, spoke out against censorship.
Last fall, Puerto Rican education officials banned five books from high school curricula, including Aura by Fuentes. "Coarse language" was cited as the cause of the block. Fuentes announced that this censorship was "an arbitrary decision that amounted to an 'antidemocratic, anticultural' act," according to an article in The State.
Aura is a complex, dreamlike romance first published in 1962.
Fuentes continues to actively write and publish.
26 March 2010
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