by Carlos Fuentes
Reality, dreams, doppelgängers, literature, love, and darkness. This tiny book has it all in spades.
This is a lovely short story, and reading the original alongside the translation is a very interesting exercise!
I loved The Death of Artemio Cruz when I read it last year, so I was deeply saddened reading of Carlos Fuentes's recent death. Today I went out and grabbed this little gem to read more of his work. Aura is a little bit of a Gothic mystery, a little bit of a romance, and completely engaging. An unemp...
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