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La Mort d'Artemio Cruz (titre original en espagnol : La muerte de Artemio Cruz) est un roman de l'écrivain mexicain Carlos Fuentes publié en 1962. Dans ce livre l'auteur offre une vision panoramique de l' histoire contemporaine du Mexique telle que se la remémore un richissime homme d'affaires agonisant.
In The Death of Artemio Cruz, Fuentes’s most widely known novel, Cruz uses his memory to fight against death; Fuentes uses his novel to fight for the memory of the original ideals of the Mexican ...
Artemio Cruz is the protagonist of “The Death of Artemio Cruz” by Carlos Fuentes. He is a wealthy and influential man in contemporary politics and business in post-revolutionary Mexico. Cruz is a congressman, real-estate magnate, newspaper and finance tycoon, and a corrupted man who has been tempted by personal gain.
Fuentes’ exploration of death in The Legacy of Artemio Cruz is not limited to Cruz’s personal experiences. The novel also examines the impact of death on Mexican society as a whole. Through Cruz’s interactions with other characters, Fuentes highlights the ways in which death is intertwined with Mexican culture and history.
The author's hero-villain, Artemio, is disintegrating when the book starts, relives his life in flashbacks, is dead when it ends. But Fuentes believes there will always be an Artemio. He was a rebellious young lieutenant during the revolt against Díaz, and a hard-fisted exploiter of the beaten aristocracy and the peasants afterward.
1 de abr. de 1991 · Artemio Cruz is a man whose impending death compels him to look back over the span of his life to re-live its peak experiences. In a real sense Cruz was more than a man living in Mexico during a time of revolution: he is a microcosm of Mexico itself.
1 de jun. de 2006 · Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A critical review of the work features the contributions of Lanin A. Gyurko, Richard J. Walter…
