Carlos Fuentes, La muerte de Artemio Cruz [The Death of Artemio Cruz]

Kerstin Oloff (University of Durham)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1962

Places

Panama (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

La muerte de Artemio Cruz (trans. as The Death of Artemio Cruz) is the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes’ most acclaimed novel to date. Alongside Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) and Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Fuentes formed part of the so-called “Big Four” of the Latin American “Boom” in novelistic writing that roughly spanned the period from the beginning of the sixties to the mid-seventies and that was the culmination of the gradual rise of the “New Narrative” since the forties and fifties. Stylistically, the New Narrative sought to break with traditional omniscient third-person realism, challenged the notion that the external world was easily comprehensible, valued innovation …

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Citation: Oloff, Kerstin. "La muerte de Artemio Cruz". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 May 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26581, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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