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1) Vlad
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on "the vampire craze," Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. For-as in Dracula-Vlad has need of both a lawyer and...
Author
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his houseguest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with...
3) Aura
Author
Pub. Date
1975.
Edition
First bilingual edition.
Language
English
Description
This eBook edition of Carlos Fuentes' novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included.
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
4) The campaign
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In The Campaign, a witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner, kidnaps the baby of a prominent judge, replacing it with the black baby of a prostitute. When he catches sight of the baby's mother, though, he falls instantly in love with her and sets off on an anguished journey to repent his...
5) Burnt water
Author
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
In Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, the rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City.
Author
Series
Edad del tiempo volume 16
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1. edición.
Language
Español
Description
From his balcony in the Hotel Metropol, Friedrich Nietzsche, who has returned to a modern age with his old doubts and faults, interrogates Friedrich Nietzsche on the other balcony. Carlos Fuentes from his balcony, questions Carlos Fuentes in the other balcony.
Desde su balcón en el Hotel Metropol, Federico Nietzsche, que regresa a una edad moderna con sus viejas dudas y culpas, interroga a Federico Nietzsche en el otro balcón. Carlos Fuentes,...
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