Autobiography is "almost un-known" in Mexico, writes Jorge Cas-taneda, in his recently published contribution to the genre, "Amarres Perros" (the title is an untranslatable play on the name of a film that could be rendered as "Shaggy Entanglements"). The same goes for biography and for Latin America as a whole. In other regions, as Mr Castaneda writes, a life that is important, interesting or illuminating of a historical period is held to be worth telling. He reckons that his own life fits the bill sufficiently to warrant "a small break with the Mexican tradition of keeping quiet about everything or paying others to talk."
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