{"product_id":"muerte-de-artemio-cruz-la","title":"The Death of Artemio Cruz","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the 60th anniversary of its publication, Alfaguara rereleases this masterpiece of the Latin American Boom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e«His faith in the messianic destiny of literature knows no bounds. Nor does it tolerate jokes, of course. A writer like this, being such a good writer, is twice as good.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel García Márquez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e«Revolutions are made by flesh and blood men, not saints, and they all end up creating a new privileged caste.»\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn his deathbed, during his last half-day in the world, the old and sick Artemio Cruz remembers: he was not always that sad sack of bones and bodily ferments; he was once young, daring, vigorous. And he had ideals, dreams, faith. To defend all that, he even fought in a revolution. But greed, avarice, and corruption extinguished his fire and annihilated his hope. Perhaps that is why he lost the only woman who truly loved him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the 60th anniversary of its publication, Alfaguara rereleases this masterpiece of the Latin American Boom. A novel that addresses fundamental themes such as the temptations of power, love, and evil, and is also a reflection on the Mexico that emerged from the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Exceptional, both in its way of encompassing the entire human spectrum and in its corrosive satire and biting dialogue.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«His work is an eloquent testament to all the great political problems and cultural realities of our time.»\u003cbr\u003eMario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Throughout his literary career, Carlos Fuentes carried out the vast task of making invention an instructive instrument of history, or vice versa, in that constant game of mirrors that was his writing.»\u003cbr\u003eSergio Ramírez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Fuentes's novelistic work is a true encyclopedia of the human species and in this sense can be compared to that of Balzac.»\u003cbr\u003eJuan Goytisolo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Through superb language, he became an accomplice of the human and of our history.»\u003cbr\u003eNélida Piñon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Fuentes's work gave us an idea of ambition, showed us that vocation is not to hide from the world, but to call it and transform it.»\u003cbr\u003eJuan Gabriel Vásquez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«I admire that incessant energy of invention that he has to always find a new way to say what every writer has to say, which are two or three things but which constitute his reason for existing.»\u003cbr\u003eÁlvaro Mutis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Undoubtedly Carlos Fuentes is one of the most important shapers of the transformation undergone by the Spanish American novel in recent years, and\u003ci\u003e The Death of Artemio Cruz\u003c\/i\u003e one of his best-known works.»\u003cbr\u003eHernán Vidal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Carlos Fuentes organized this novel into thirteen chapters. In these scales, as if it were a jazz trio, we read - we hear - an off-beat ensemble that comes and goes through the mind of a dying man. With this unconventional structure, the story flows #through different fugues# through six decades of 20th century Mexico. From the rural novecento to the most cosmopolitan decade of the sixties, we see Artemio Cruz exhibiting a type who is constantly rising in public, but with a disintegrated inner history.»\u003cbr\u003eAntonio Valle,\u003ci\u003e La Jornada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carlos Fuentes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536082239736,"sku":"9788466332910","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P33291C.jpg?v=1671633567","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/muerte-de-artemio-cruz-la","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}