Fuentes Carlos: Stablo naranče

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Author: Fuentes Carlos
Publisher: Litteris
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Code: 25073

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Stablo naranče

Fuentes Carlos

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Carlos Fuentes: The Orange Tree

The characters of Fuentes' stories expose themselves to life's dangers and suffer injustices, failing to satisfy their ambitions: a sailor who throws a bottle into the sea, a Spanish soldier who lives with the Indians and serves as an interpreter for Cortes, a learned Greek who takes part in the siege of Numantia, Cortes' son who is involved in a plot against the king, and a Hollywood actor who visits one public house in Acapulco. Fuentes shows us the misery of the conquest of America, the horrors of war in Europe and the exoticism of the modern world through the picturesque figure of an orange tree. The oriental tree whose seeds, planted in Europe and America, are a symbol of fertility, mixing and rapture with the "New World" thus becomes Ariadne's thread that connects all five of Fuentes' novels through a subtle play of mirrors. A round fruit like a mother's breast or a land that a sailor-discoverer dreams of visiting, the orange tree describes the circles of time, personal and historical destiny...
Carlos Fuentes, a Mexican novelist born in 1928, along with García
Marquez and Vargas Llosa, is one of the giants of South American literature, always in the innermost circle of Nobel Prize contenders. His work mixes Catholic funerals and pagan sacrifices, Spanish palaces and Aztec pyramids, ritual, cultural and social differences between the cultures of the old and new worlds. The author of "The Death of Artemio Cruz", "Old Gringo", "Terra Nostra", "Years with Laura Diaz", Fuentes is, among many awards, the winner of the Cervantes Award in 1987.

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