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Carlos Fuentes Macías (/ ˈfwɛnteɪs /; [ 1 ]Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos ˈfwentes] ⓘ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described ...
Dewey Decimal. 863.64. The Death of Artemio Cruz (Spanish: La muerte de Artemio Cruz, pronounced [aɾˈtemjo ˈkɾus]) is an historical fiction novel published in 1962 by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. An English translation by Sam Hileman was published in 1964, and a new translation by Alfred MacAdam in 1991.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/ fuˈɛntəs /; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. [1][2] Amado Carrillo became known as " El Señor de Los Cielos " ("The Lord of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport ...
The Old Gringo (Spanish: Gringo Viejo) is a novel by Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1985. Its English language translation of the same year was the first novel by a Mexican author to be a U.S. bestseller [1] and was one of three nominees for the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award as best novel of 1985. [2] An unsuccessful adaptation to film ...
Jean Dorothy Seberg (/ ˈsiːbɜːrɡ /; [3] French: [ʒin sebɛʁɡ]; [4] November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard 's 1960 film Breathless. [5][6] Seberg appeared in 34 films in the United States and Europe, including Saint ...
978-0-374-51171-5. Aura is a short novel written by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1962 in Mexico. This novel is considered as magic realism literary fiction for its remarkable description of “dreamlike” themes and the complexion of “double identity” portrayed by the character. Its narrative is completely carried ...
October 16, 2019 at 9:53 AM. Food Network chef Carl Ruiz's cause of death has been revealed. A little less than a month after Ruiz's death at the age of 44 on September 22, a spokesperson for the ...
Terra Nostra, perhaps Fuentes' most ambitious novel, is a "massive, Byzantine work" that tells the story of all Hispanic civilization. [2] Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans.