In this sweeping, vividly written, and profusely illustrated work, Fuentes surveys the vast, complex 500-year history of the Spanish in the Americas and sees both the richness of the culture that has evolved and the troubling vestiges of colonialism.
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.
Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, "The Death of Artemio Cruz" is Carlos Fuentes's haunting voyage into the soul of modern Mexico. Its acknowledged place in Latin American fiction and its appeal to a fresh generation of readers have warranted this new translation by Alfred Mac Adam, translator (with the author) of Fuentes's ...
Fuentes's novel about the American writer Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared deep into Mexico during its civil war, dramatizes the conflicted relationship between America and Mexico. This is the original Spanish version of the text.
A detailed vision of the powers and miseries of Mexican politics. It is the year 2020, in a Mexico without telecommunications or computers because the United States (owner and exclusive supplier of everything) has punished them. This is also the year in which the presidency is being disputed, in other words, it will be decided who will seat in the ...
After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.
Mariano Azuela, a Mexican physician and writer, served in Francisco Villa's armies. He wrote Los de abajo, one of the most realistic, dramatic and enlightening novels of Mexico's 1910 Revolution. It stands its ground with other accounts written by participants and witnesses to the armed struggle.
This collection richly displays the many overlapping traditions of Latin American literature, including the work of internationally influential writers such as Garcia Marquez, Borges, Cortazar and many others.
Perfect literary work that is sufficient and definitive. In this short novel, the famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes embodies in a marvelous way the myth and the plot, the search, the encounter and the separation, life and death. Hugo Montero, the historian, reads a classified ad that makes him relive the story of the dead and, without knowing ...
On New Year's Eve, 1969, a novelist in his 40s meets a beautiful but third-rate actress--Diana Soren, of Iowa--and becomes obsessed with her. This passionate autobiographical novel is about not only their love affair but also the radical movements of the 1960s that had spread across Mexico as well as the U.S.
In "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" we are present in the last moments of the lif e of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous ...
Where the Air Is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes constructs his novel around a series of encounters with members of this world, including Federico Robles, an ambitious self-made millionaire; Rodrigo Pola, a writer whose father was ...
Drawing expertly on five centuries of the cultural history of Europe and the Americas, Fuentes seeks to capture the spirit of the new, vibrant and enduring civilization (in the New World) that began in Spain.
From the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles, images in Spain and the Americas speak to us of the astonishing richness and vitality of Spanish culture. Now Fuentes, an internationally renowned novelist and diplomat, provides a unique history of the forces that have created this remarkable ...
Translated by Alfred MacAdam, a collection of five novellas from this author which explores the theme of cultural conflict. From the author of THE CAMPAIGN.
One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra Nostra is concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations. Fuentes skillfully blends a wide range of literary forms, stories within stories, ...
Laura Diaz is a passionate character, intimately connected to many historical events. Through her story, Carlos Fuentes writes the journal of the Mexican twentieth century, supporting his novel with facts and characters that define the shape of today's Mexico.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), whose art mirrors the passion, tumult, and enormous strength of an anguished life, is one of the most charismatic figures of her time. Her paintings mingle Surrealism, folk art, and autobiography in a haunting and visceral style. The Diary of Frida Kahlo provides, in Kahlo's own words and pictures, the most personal and ...
Fuentes's masterpiece, La region mas transparente is credited with influencing not only Fuentes' subsequent work but also that of his contemporaries. This novel is, without a doubt, the first grand urban novel about post-revolutionary Mexico. 40th anniversary commemorative edition.
This volume brings together six stories about supernatural beings--ghosts, demons, angels, missing people, witches, and vampires--who burst into daily lives in an unexpected way to change the destiny of those who find them.
In a Mexico City devastated by acid rain and pollution, the first child to arrive in the world on the 500th anniversary of Columbus's conquering of the Americas will receive a prize. As he awaits his own birth, little Christopher meditates on the world in which he will be born.
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) kept a remarkable diary revealing the passion and strength of the final ten years of her anguished life. This volume is a facsimile which includes her own brightly coloured paintings and drawings.
"The Good Conscience" is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his ...
On New Year's Eve, 1969, a novelist in his 40s meets a beautiful but third-rate actress--Diana Soren, of Iowa--and becomes obsessed with her. This passionate autobiographical novel is about not only their love affair but also the radical movements of the 1960s that had spread across Mexico as well as the U.S.
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