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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...
...Death of Artemio Cruz, Fuentes used Faulkner's techniques of fragmented point of view and multiple narrators. In Where the Air is Clear he works with Dos Passos's camera eye techniques," Alazraki added...
...most critically acclaimed works have been "The Death of Artemio Cruz" in 1962, and "Terra Nostra" in 1975. Fuentes' most recent works are a 1980 novel, "Distant Relations," and a 1982 play. "Orchids in the Moonlight," which premiered at Harvard's Loeb Drama Center...
...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...
...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...