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The Impact of 'La muerte de Artemio Cruz' on Mexican Literature and Society

1. Introduction

Although there has been no unanimity, generally "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" has been taken as the Mexican novel par excellence of this epoch. As to the stylistic devices used in its confection, this thesis will outline the actual studies of Carlos Fuentes. It is hoped that as far as the summary and interpretation of "La muerte" are concerned, the style is the man in the sense that my research will reflect my ideological interests. For what is said about the book is really intended to determine its literary significance as an aesthetic object superior to that mass of mere testamentary literature in vogue today. The era of 'manifestations of the self', an inevitable symptom of the 'crisis' in literature now facing us. The first part is composed of simple introductory chapters, subject as they are, to the capacities of this student in this field. The second will be attempting a detailed and comprehensive study of "La muerte de Artemio Cruz". It is, I think, important to bring toget

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The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

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First American edition. New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964.

“Seventy-one years old, wasted and sick with a degrading intestinal affliction, Artemio Cruz lies in bed and remembers — remembers and lives while the priest administers extreme Unction. A financial success, risen with ruthless ambition from the ashes of the Mexican Revolution, Cruz relives what he did and did not manage to salvage from his life. His days as a Revolutionary soldier, his lost love Regina, his unwilling wife sought through her brother's death and father's weakness, his prime, his fall and his childhood — in a complicated series of mental flashbacks the old man struggles with memory so that he can continue to live. Waiting like carrion vultures for his testament, his loveless family watches as the priest chants, "ego te absolve" — for seventy-one years without awareness. Through these last leaps of memory, Cruz becomes aware and dies just after he has remembered the farthest leap of all — birth. Whether or not his is a recogn

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The Death of Artemio Cruz

1962 novel by Carlos Fuentes

The Death of Artemio Cruz (Spanish: La muerte de Artemio Cruz, pronounced[aɾˈtemjoˈkɾus]) 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. It is considered to be a milestone in the Latin American Boom.

Plot summary

Artemio Cruz, a corrupt soldier, politician, journalist, tycoon, and lover, lies on his deathbed, recalling the shaping events of his life, from the Mexican Revolution through the development of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. His family crowds around, pressing him to reveal the location of his will; a priest provides extreme unction, angling for a deathbed confession and reconciliation with the Church (while Artemio indulges in obscene thoughts about the birth of Jesus); his private secretary has come with audiotapes of various corrupt dealings, many with gringo diplomats and speculators. Punctuating the sordid record of betrayal is Cruz'