Word: artemio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cloudless Mexican morning, Carlos Fuentes gazes into the gilded nave of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a colonial church built over the ruins of the massive pyramid at Cholula. As the faithful kneel in prayer, the author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz shakes his head in wonder. "It's a great example of Mexican culture -- the Indian and the Spanish religion coming together," he says. "What more perfect symbol than a pyramid topped by a church devoted to the Virgin Mary...
...first novel, a vivid tapestry of postrevolutionary Mexico called Where the Air Is Clear, galvanized that country's literature. Four years later, The Death of Artemio Cruz, a Faulknerian tour de force narrated by a man during the final hours of his life, propelled Fuentes into the front ranks of "el Boom," the globally acclaimed wave of Latin American authors that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa...