FSG Classics The Death of Artemio Cruz, (Paperback)

from Kristelh

I read a translation by Alfred Mac Adam. This is the story of Artemio Cruz. The reader is introduced to Artemio as he lays dying. The story is told in a series of stream of conscious technique. Artemio takes us back in his life but not in chronological order and then back to the sick room where h...

from araridan

This is my second venture into Fuentes, the first being "The Crystal Frontier." While "Crystal" was seemingly a bunch of short stories and "Artemio" is written as diary entries, I thought there was a definite connection in their forms. In "Crystal" the short stories often feature a lot of the sam...

from mark1722

Tour de Force allegory that explores the complexities of Mexican national identity. The complicated narrative (divided into a third person omniscient that retells the key moments in AC's life; the 1st person stream-of-conscious rants of the bed-ridden and dying AC; and the 2nd person self-recrimi...

from mark1722

Tour de Force allegory that explores the complexities of Mexican national identity. The complicated narrative (divided into a third person omniscient that retells the key moments in AC's life; the 1st person stream-of-conscious rants of the bed-ridden and dying AC; and the 2nd person self-recrimi...