The Death of Artemio Cruz
As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon...
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As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon memory, from Cruz’s heroic campaigns during the Mexican Revolution, through his relentless climb from poverty to wealth, to his uneasy death. Perhaps Fuentes’s masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz is a haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374531805 (0374531803)
Publish date: February 3rd 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Magical Realism,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature
This may be the best book I have ever read. It is lyrical, crude, laser-sharp but also epic. It was literally breath-taking. It is about life and death, love, loss, corruption, pride, compassion, connection to history and to the land. It is about Mexico and about what it is to be human, and about be...
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