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The Death of Artemio Cruz

The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos FuentesOriginal 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.”

Carlos Fuentes book The Death of Artemio Cruz

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

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