Carlos Fuentes
1) Adam in Eden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with reality.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the late Carlos Fuentes's final projects, this compendium of his criticism traces the evolution of the Latin American novel from the discovery of America to the present day. Combining historical perspective with personal and often opinionated interpretation, Fuentes gives us a tour from Machado de Assis to Borges and beyond. A landmark analysis, as well as a scintillating and often wry commentary on a great author's peers and influences, this...
12) The old gringo
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
Español
Description
Un clásico de la literatura mexicana del siglo XX, que es a su vez una audaz exploración de las posibilidades de representación en la literatura, a través de la superposición de niveles de tiempo, espacio y consciencia narrativos. "Las revoluciones las hacen los hombres de carne y hueso y no los santos, y todas acaban por crear una nueva casta privilegiada..." En su lecho de muerte, durante su último medio día, el anciano y enfermo Artemio...
14) Aura
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st bilingual ed.
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Felipe Montero se emplea en la casa de una viuda de edad para editar las memorias de su difunto marido. Hay Felipe cumple con su hermosa...
15) Adán en Edén
Author
Series
Edad del tiempo.Tiempo político volume t. 4
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Comic novel that deals head-on with many of the gravest issues of 21st-century Mexico. Key to its hilarity is the idiosyncratic, self-absorbed voice of the narrator, an ambitious attorney who made his place in the public sphere by marrying the flatulent daughter of a biscuit magnate. When his wife, a woman prone to bizarre non sequiturs, begins a romance with a loutish official who oversees a barbaric and fraudulent government crackdown on crime,...
19) Time to die
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The story of a former gunman who returns to his town after serving time in prison. He plans to live a quiet life, but the sons of the man he killed have other plans.
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This seventh installment in our beloved Very Christmas series is a celebration of the Mexican Yuletide spirit. Replete with mouthwatering Nochebuena meals, mysterious felines, multicolored boxes, marvelous sweet rolls, and many a bedside tale, A Very Mexican Christmas is sure to delight, warm, and astonish by turns. You'll find spellbiridng work by some of Mexico's most important writers, contemporary favorites, as well as fresh translations of classic...