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Original Title:	La muerte de Artemio Cruz
ISBN:	0374522839 (ISBN13: 9780374522834)
Edition Language:	English

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Carlos Fuentes

Paperback | Pages: 307 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 8492 Users | 549 Reviews

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Title	:	The Death of Artemio Cruz
Author	:	Carlos Fuentes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 307 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1991 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature

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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 Christopher Unborn.

As in all his fiction, but perhaps most powerfully in this book, Fuentes is a passionate guide to the ironies of Mexican history, the burden of its past, and the anguish of its present.

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carlos fuentes is another one of those latin american writers that makes me hate myself. beyond his tremendous skill as a novelist, he's good looking, well dressed, worldly, dashing, daring, and claims to have slept with jean seberg and jeanne moreau. the bastard. and then i come across the article below and all my self-hatred is directed solely at him: the series mentioned would surely be my favorite bunch of books ever written... except they don't exist. "In the fall of 1967 I happened to be

Seventy-one-year-old Artemio Cruz is dying. He is a very rich and powerful man, made ruthless, godless and corrupt by his hard childhood and his soldiering during the Mexican revolution during which he had cheated death several times and had done, and suffered, betrayals. After the revolution, through corrupt wheeling and dealing and use of force for self-aggrandizement he became extremely rich. He now owns vast tracks of land, companies, a newspaper and, by himself, he is a major political

Unfortunately, I got very little from this book. At times it's all but impenetrable, which is disappointing because I loved the premise (a dying man looking back at important moments of his long life). I just didn't have the tools necessary to get into this (Mexican history, etc.).

The Great Mexican Novel? The Great Novel of the Latin American "Boom" Generation? However you describe La muerte de Artemio Cruz's greatness, you'll need a capital G.The book, which is generally regarded as Carlos Fuentes's best -- I'll resist endorsing that statement now, for I haven't read any other of his fictional works, but I acknowledge it'd be hard to beat -- tells the sinister, obfuscated story of the failure of the Mexican Revolution by way of the sinister, obfuscated character Artemio

The book is written from the viewpoint of the main character, Artemio Cruz, who is now dying on a hospital bed. Every other chapter, we switch from his incoherent end-of-physical-life thoughts to a clearer style, throwbacks to when he was younger. We are meant to follow how a brave revolutionary loses the love of his life and turns calculated and cold, eventually becoming a tyrant and a corrupt figure in the country for which he once fought. It's all about minor decisions that lead his moral

There are pros and cons to my annual read-a-book-in-Spanish self-imposed requirement.Pros:1. I feel oh-so-cultured and smart.2. My Spanish is back to near-fluent levels by the second half of the book.Cons:1. I have basically no idea what happened in the first half of the book.2. It takes freaking forever.Based on what I actually understood, this is a pretty darn good novel about Mexico and an old dude named Artemio. However, shifting perspectives, Mexican idioms, and lots of historical/political

Caveat: This review is specific to my current, idiosyncratic reading needs. Specifically, I need not to have my depression exacerbated. Short version: if you are ill and trying not to focus on your physical being, and would be disturbed by the graphic depiction of the physical decomposition and mental fragmentation of a dying protagonist who is sociopathic, power-consumed, hateful and in no imaginable way sympathetic, don't read this book. Longer version follows.----------Some people achieve