Víctor Fuentes is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, author of some 3,000 articles and 28 books, including critical editions and anthologies. From Columbia University to the University of California, and in the summer of 1962, passing through the Spanish School of Middlebury College, Fuentes has developed an important teaching career in the field of cinema, theatre and Hispanic American literature on American soil, becoming, over time, one of the greatest specialists in the work of Luis Buñuel; an author whom he knew and to whom he has dedicated five masterful books of undoubted intellectual and emotional value.