Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's best-known contemporary writers, is a leading figure in the Latin American "literary boom" who has contributed greatly to the canon of Spanish American literature. His novel The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), widely regarded as his first major novel, quickly became a landmark in Mexican and Latin American fiction. The novel explores the legacy of the Mexican Revolution as filtered through the eyes of Artemio Cruz, lying on his deathbed. Fuentes uses complex and innovative narrative techniques, allowing Cruz's story to emerge in a series of voices from both the past and the present. At the heart of this story is the search for a Mexican national identity among the promises and failures of the Mexican Revolution. Book jacket.Bloom, Harold is the author of 'Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780791085875 and ISBN 0791085872.