Sales of the offending works have rocketed. What's so shocking about that?" Though incensed by the sacking, he and Gabriel García Márquez - a close friend and fellow resident of Mexico City, whose fiction was also impugned by Abascal - have found reason to gloat. "But in Mexico most couples do that there's always a crucifix above the bed. "Abascal objects to a scene in which a couple make love under a crucifix," Fuentes scoffs. Ridiculous though many in the Mexican cabinet find the complaint, it led to a woman being sacked last month for teaching the book at the convent school attended by the minister's teenage daughter in Mexico City. According to the Mexican labour minister, Carlos Abascal, Carlos Fuentes's gothic novella Aura, first published in 1962, is corrupting to young women. M exico's greatest novelist is bemused, at 72, to find he can still cause a scandal.
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