La muerte de Artemio Cruz

Synopsis of La muerte de Artemio Cruz

«La muerte de Artemio Cruz» is the novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (424 pages, in Spanish).

Artemio Cruz, a former revolutionary on his deathbed, recalls the twelve days that marked his life. Through those memories, the novel traces the history of Mexico since the Revolution and addresses solitude, power, and lovelessness with a narrative structure of alternating voices and times.

The novel, originally published in 1962, is number 406 in the Letras Hispánicas collection. This sixth edition includes an introduction and notes by José Carlos González Boixo.

For readers interested in twentieth-century Mexican narrative, the Latin American boom, and the experimental novel.