Aura
by:
Carlos Fuentes (author)
Lysander Kemp (translator)
Bilingual edition (English and Spanish). Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and...
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Bilingual edition (English and Spanish).
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374511715 (0374511713)
Publish date: 1986-09-01
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 145
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Horror,
Magical Realism,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature
Excellent writing. But... someone spoiled for me (I have no luck with spoilers), so please if you read this book, don't tell anyone this is a "phantom" story.
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 like this book because it's about a big, old, dark house in downtown Mexico City. I've never been to Mexico City, but I've been in big old houses in other Mexican towns, and this is the perfect story for bringing back their peeling paint, hard tile floors, high ceilings, scarce light and lost in t...
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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