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The Death of Artemio Cruz

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes Original title La muerte de Artemio Cruz (Spanish, 1962)

The Death of Artemio Cruz is a novel written in 1962 by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. It is considered to be a milestone in the Latin American Boom.


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“The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”

Describing a Mexican baroque church
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)

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