Vuelta (magazine)

Vuelta

Categories	Literary magazine
Founder	Octavio Paz
Founded	1976
Final issue	1998
Country	Mexico
Based in	Mexico City
Language	Spanish

Vuelta was a Spanish-language literary magazine published in Mexico City, Mexico, from 1976 to 1998. It was founded by poet Octavio Paz, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The magazine, successor to the earlier Plural (founded 1971), closed after his death. Its role was inherited by Letras Libres.

History and profile

Vuelta was founded by poet Octavio Paz in December 1976^[1] following the controversial dismantling of the workers' cooperative that ran the daily newspaper Excélsior. The magazine ceased publication following Paz's death in 1998.^[2]

The magazine published an important group of international intellectuals and writers, from Mexico, Latin America, the United States, and Europe, many of whom Paz met during his remarkable career. These included Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Zaid, E.M. Cioran, Enrique Krauze, Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Samuel Beckett, Milan Kundera, Czesław Miłosz, Susan Sontag, John Kenneth Galbraith, Leszek Kołakowski, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Isaiah Berlin, and Reinaldo Arenas, among others.

Paz published a collection of poems under the title Vuelta, which were written between 1969 and 1974.

In 1988, historian Enrique Krauze criticized Carlos Fuentes and his fiction in an article Vuelta, dubbing him a "guerrilla dandy" for the perceived gap between his Marxist politics and his personal lifestyle, as well as his long absences from the country he wrote about.^[3][4][5] This essay contributed to a permanent rift between Paz and Fuentes, formerly close friends, who were also estranged because of Fuentes' support for the Sandinistas.^[4][6]

Vuelta received the 1993 Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities. In the award, Vuelta was described as "one of the most important cultural phenomena in the Spanish language".

References

1. Claire Brewster (2005). Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mexico: The Political Writings of Paz, Fuentes, Monsivais, and Poniatowska. University of Arizona Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8165-2491-4.
2. Daniel Balderston; Mike Gonzalez; Ana M. Lopez (11 September 2002). Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Routledge. p. 1576. ISBN 978-1-134-78852-1.
3. Marjorie Miller (17 May 2012). "Appreciating Mexican author Carlos Fuentes". Google News. Associated Press. Retrieved 18 May 2012.^{[dead link]}
4. Reed Johnson; Ken Ellingwood (16 May 2012). "Carlos Fuentes dies at 83; Mexican novelist". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
5. "Mexico mourns death of Carlos Fuentes". The Telegraph. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
6. Marcela Valdes (16 May 2012). "Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, dies at 83". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 May 2012.

External links

• Revista Vuelta: Prince of Asturias Award