Carlos Fuentes in Malba Art Senter

The great Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes visited Buenos Aires at Malba (Musuo de Arte Latinoamericana de Buenos Aires) Wednesday 14th November. This is as close as I got, in the foyer, the auditorium was packed.
Afterwards they treated specially invited guests with wines and Mexican snacks. Living in hope, I hung around the restaurant to see if they would notice me slipping by, but the lady with the namelist kept giving me spiky looks.
Appearantly I was not among the worthy ones. Cool guy, though, 79 years old with of strong presens and great humor.
A true trancient experience, and I was there. When the dialouge with Silvia Hopenhayn was over, it was gone.
He spoke of his fascination for the city where the collective coincide with the individual and he spoke of the problem of arts, music and litterature which only reproduce themselves (like fashion) and don´t really develop.
And like other great writers he admitted that writing is 10 % talent and inspiration. The remaining 90 % is work. Either you write or you don´t.

A donde voy
Por donde voy
A donde vuelvo
Carlos Fuentes