Word: artemio
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Politics has also been a major theme of Fuentes' literature. The Death of Artemio Cruz, his third novel, is a powerful indictment of the failures of the Mexican Revolution to bring social justice to Mexico...
...Labyrinth of Solitude, a study that described a New World nation improvising a future from indigenous traditions and revolutionary ideals. Paz's dynamic countryman Carlos Fuentes measured the distance between Mexican dream and reality in two impressively executed novels, Where the Air Is Clear and The Death of Artemio Cruz...
...storied Burnt Water was written over the years of 1954-80, "as satellites around certain novels so they have something of the quality of the novel I was writing at the time. One can therefore find similarities to such novels as Aura, A Change of Skin, The Death of Artemio Cruz in these stories...
...world-reknowned writer, has been a diplomat, and is now a Fellow at Dartmouth College. For many people, Carlos Fuentes serves as a spokeman for Mexico--the country he writes his experimental and political works about. His novels such as Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz. Where the Air is Clear, Hydrahead, and the recently translated collection of short stories. Burnt Water, have all treated the themes of Mexico's 1910 revolution, class society and ancient past, employing the symbolism and mythology of Mexico's revolution and indigenous people. Fuentes has been venerated for his prolific and original books...