The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes Summary
Overview of The Death of Artemio Cruz
A dying revolutionary's fractured memories reveal Mexico's corrupted soul. Carlos Fuentes' 1962 masterpiece defined Latin American literature, pioneering stream-of-consciousness techniques that influenced generations. This cornerstone of the Latin American Boom asks: what price do nations pay when idealism transforms into power?
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著者の声を通じて本を感じる
知識を魅力的で例が豊富な洞察に変換
キーアイデアを瞬時にキャプチャして素早く学習
楽しく魅力的な方法で本を楽しむ
重要なポイント
Between Power and Mortality: A Life Unraveled
Artemio Cruz lies dying at seventy-one, his once-powerful body now betraying him with every labored breath. As pain strikes "like a long, cold dagger" in his stomach, his consciousness fragments between first, second, and third person perspectives-a kaleidoscope of memories reflecting his disintegrating self. His daughter Teresa reads a newspaper with apparent indifference. His wife Catalina offers hollow caresses after decades of mutual resentment. When a priest approaches with last rites, Cruz demands his secretary instead, clinging to business affairs even at death's door. Just yesterday, he maintained composure during an airplane engine failure while others panicked-a fitting metaphor for how he's navigated life's moral hazards. His thoughts turn to his vast empire: real estate investments, mining interests, logging concessions, newspaper ownership, and fifteen million dollars secretly deposited abroad. This wealth came through exploiting peasants, political connections, and corrupt practices spanning decades of what he dismissively calls "social peace." As his body fails-swelling, blue fingernails, frozen feet he no longer feels-the boundaries between past and present blur. "My body is dying of pain, but my brain is full of light: they are separating," he realizes, as memories flood back with crystalline clarity. Through this fragmentation, we witness a life built on contradiction and compromise, a man confronting the sum of his choices as death strips away all pretense.
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