Subseries 2I: Juvenilia /repositories/5/archival_objects/1180616 5 boxes 1930-1959 Scope and Contents

This subseries is arranged chronologically and in three parts: 1. Notebooks, 2. School Notes, and 3. Writings and Drawings. Notebooks include Fuentes' viewed film notebook and notebooks with drafts of early fiction, nonfiction, and juvenile cartoons. The second section includes juvenile work done at schools in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City; and the third section includes fiction and nonfiction written in the '40s and '50s, and some of the author's earliest efforts, e.g., material labeled by the author "Very Early Writings—Chile 1942—Mexico 1949" This section also includes drafts of Fuentes' prize-winning essay written for the law school of UNAM, 1953, and the author's early drawings and cartoons.

Arrangement

Arranged by genre of material.

1. NOTEBOOKS /repositories/5/archival_objects/1180795 2 boxes 1940-1959 Four notebooks, dated 194-?: Notebook A, contains French grammar exercises, Notebook B, with cover title "Literatura inglesa y tr."; Notebook C with untitled drama written in three acts; Notebook D (blue cover) with notes titled (on first page) "Historia e ideas literarias." /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183947 1 folder dates not examined 81 8 Notebook: Address book used as a notebook (green cover with "Indice" printed in gold), containing alphabetical list of suggested authors and books to read, 194-? /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183948 1 folder dates not examined 81 9 Viewed film notebook "Peliculas vistas...": Signed "Carlos Fuentes M" on cover. Notebook covers the period, — /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183949 1 folder 1943 January 1948 July 81 10 Notebook: (black leather cover removed): Contains fiction and nonfiction divided in eight parts, TMs and AMs; miscellaneous cartoons; school notes, [ 1940s or 1950s] /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183950 1 folder 1940s 1950s 82 1 Notebook (green cover): Contains comic book titled "Illustrated History of the World" (author's translation of title), AMs and colored pencil drawings. Dated " 1945" by author /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183951 1 folder 1945 82 2 2. SCHOOL NOTES /repositories/5/archival_objects/1180796 1 box 1930-1955 School notes, mostly from the Grange School, Santiago, Chile; printed material re: Chile and "America"; color sketches, [ ] /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183952 1 folder 1930s-1945 82 3 School notes, university level, TMs and AMs, includes "Educational Credo 1947," /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183953 1 folder 1940s 82 4 School notes, law school (Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico), AMs; draft essays, law school, TMss /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183954 1 folder circa 1949-1953 82 5 Scope and Contents

See also law school thesis below in Fiction, Prose, and Verse (3).

School notes, Santiago, Chile¯México, D.F. Material is dated /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183955 1 folder 1943 1945 1951 1955 82 6 3. WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS /repositories/5/archival_objects/1180797 4 boxes 1940-1956 Material labeled by author "Very Early Writings—Chile 1942-Mexico 1949" TMss and AMss, 1942-1949 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183956 1 folder 1942 1949 1942-1949 82 7 Early fiction: Includes Fuentes' note for material not included in the folder (a novel co-authored at the Grange School with Roberto Torretti, 1942-1943); drafts, fiction, early 1940s /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183957 1 folder 1942-1943 1940s 83 1 First book project labeled "Proyecto primer libro," by author. Includes short stories and dramatic pieces; lists; parody of Don Quixote de la Mancha; dialogue "Cana!"; notes; pencil drawing (self-portrait) /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183958 1 folder 1940s 83 2 "Parodies": Includes "Quixote parody written at Colegio Mexico, Mexico City 1944" "Portrait of Literary Friends Society...1943," cartoon parodies, and "El séptimo arte." Dated circa 1943-1949 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183959 1 folder 1944 circa 1943-1949 83 3 Parodies, other miscellaneous fiction: Drafts, stories in comic book style, including "El honorable[?] cuerpo diplomático," some material dated "Buenos Aires... 1943" Dated circa 1943-1950 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183960 1 folder 1943 circa 1943-1950 83 4 Early fiction, other miscellaneous writings: Drafts, short stories and dialogues, including "Banana Split por Popoff," "Qué Asco!!"; miscellaneous cartoons. Dated — /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183961 1 folder 1943 circa 1950 83 5 Material, mostly "Tentative novels & dialogues 1946-1949" Includes some early pieces, e.g., "Breve reseña de la novela mexicana." 1940s /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183962 1 folder 1946-1949 1940s 83 6 "Holofernes": Drafts of a novel, dated by author " 1947-1948" 1948-1949" Drafts in English and Spanish, TMss and AMs; misc. sketches /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183963 1 folder 1947-1948 1948-1949 83 7 "Os-Oris": Draft of a short story, labeled by author "4th Prize Morelos Prep 1947¯became 'Por boca de los dioses,' Los días enmascarados, 1954" /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183964 1 folder 1947 1954 83 8 "Seascape": Short story, drafts in English and Spanish /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183965 1 folder 1947 83 9 "Comedia de salón," dialogue; "A Gothic Novel," draft in English; miscellaneous fiction (fragments). Material is dated by author 1940s and 1949 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183966 1 folder 1940s 1949 84 1 "The Basfumista Movement": drafts, article "Basfumismo," dated by author 1949 "Les cahiers du Basfumism (just what it sounds like)," a scrapbook of printed articles about "Basfumism." 1940s /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183967 1 folder 1949 1940s 84 2 Drafts, short stories: untitled and "Ryonosuke Akutagawa," "El trigo errante," undated, dated 1950 and 1956; printed material re: juvenilia compiled by Julio Ortega; Xerox copies of "El muñeco" and "El trigo errante" from Universidad de México, 1956 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183968 1 folder 1950, 1956 84 3 Nonfiction: drafts, essays and articles (some of the material is from an original folder titled "1eros ensayos" by CF). Includes drafts "La decadencia del snob," "Orwell, el hombre a la intemperie," "Los 300 y algunos menos: mural no-antropafago,"; "India y Nehru," /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183969 1 folder 1940s 84 4 Nonfiction: Material labeled by author, "Prosas universitarias" and "Polémica juvenil," includes essay "Crisis en Europa." /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183970 1 folder 1940s-1953 84 5 Nonfiction: Drafts, "En busca del intimismo" (subtitled by CF "personal search for an aesthetics, 1946"), "1st serious lit. essay on Azuela-1946"; additional draft essay on Azuela, 1947 /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183971 1 folder 1946 1947 84 6 Nonfiction: Draft essay "Rondalla del sur (Ecos sudamericanos)," labeled by Fuentes, "3rd prize Morelos Prep 1947." /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183972 1 folder dates not examined 84 7 Nonfiction: Law school thesis (Université de Geneve), "Bosquejo jurídico-histórico de la doctrina de rebus sic stantibus," TMss, AMss, and a printed copy, 51 pp. and appendices /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183973 1 folder 1950-1951 84 8 Nonfiction: Material labeled by Fuentes, "Essay for IV Cent. Law School UNAM—First Prize—1953"; includes additional draft, "La crisis en Europa," /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183974 1 folder 1953-1954 84 9 Nonfiction: "Curriculum vitae," circa 1947 or 1948 "A Literary Manifesto," dated by author " circa 1948"; miscellaneous articles and notes, undated and " 1950-1951"; "On the Latin American Scene," draft, study presented at a seminar, Institut de Hautes Études Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland, dated by author "24 janvier 1951" /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183975 1 folder 1947-1951 84 10 Miscellaneous lists—people, places, books, movies /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183976 1 folder 1940s 84 11 Drawing in pencil, self-portrait /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183977 1 folder 1940s 84 12 Cartoons, doodles and sketches; includes drawings labeled by author, "Imaginary Geographies & History " /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183978 1 folder 1940s 85 1 Cartoons, doodles and sketches 1940s miscellaneous printed material (portraits of people) saved by Fuentes /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183979 1 folder 1940s 85 2 Poetry: drafts, original poems and translations of poems in English (from Spanish). Includes drafts, translation by Fuentes of T. S. Eliot's poem "Ash Wednesday," /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183980 1 folder 1947-1949 85 3 Theater: drafts, school play, and other dramatic pieces. Parody of Lope de Vega dated "Colegio México 1945" by author. 1940s /repositories/5/archival_objects/1183981 1 folder 1945 1940s 85 4