The arts and monsters: Carlos Fuentes marries literature, creativity, politics and the `Bride of Frankenstein'.

From: Kansas City Star | Date: May 5, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: John Mark Eberhart

Carlos Fuentes sips hot tea at a table in Kansas City's Raphael Hotel. He is dark-suited, handsome; his silvered hair is combed back. His looks reflect his life _ that of an internationally famous statesman, scholar, novelist.

But Fuentes, the man who wrote ``Terra Nostra,'' the ``Ulysses'' of Latin American literature, wants to talk about ... monster movies.

His eyebrows lift; he flashes a smile. Then Fuentes, 75, recall...

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