Agua Quemada: Cuarteto Narrativo (Punto de Lectura, #108) (Hispanic Texts) (Tierra Firme)

by Carlos Fuentes

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This is a collection of four long novellas, originally published in 1981, about characters from the lowest to the highest echelons of society in Mexico City. They offer an insight into the development of Mexican society since the 1910 Revolution, tracking the rise of the new bourgeoisie and the political/social tensions and violence of the late 1960s and early '70s. In one story a youth is torn between his drug-baron father and his grandfather who was a hero in the 1910 Revolution; in another, a young man is recruited from his shanty town to become a fascist para-military thug. The introduction, in English, surveys the life and work of Carlos Fuentes, and offers substantial analyses of the stories and their historical background. This edition also has a vocabulary aimed at A-level and first-year undergraduate students, including many Mexicanisms found in the text. Suggested essay titles and themes for discussion should make this a useful classroom text.
  • ISBN10 0719044227
  • ISBN13 9780719044229
  • Publish Date 7 December 1995 (first published 1 January 1990)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 April 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Manchester University Press
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 196
  • Language Spanish