La muerte de Artemio Cruz

Synopsis of La muerte de Artemio Cruz

«La muerte de Artemio Cruz» is the Mexican novel by Carlos Fuentes, published by Alfaguara in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).

In his final hours of life, the elderly Artemio Cruz recalls his past: he was a young man with ideals who fought in the Mexican Revolution, but ambition and corruption transformed him into a powerful, unscrupulous man who lost the only love of his life. A story about power, evil, and the Mexico that emerged from the revolution.

The novel originally appeared in 1962 and is part of Alfaguara's Hispánica collection; Carlos Fuentes was awarded the Cervantes Prize.

For readers of twentieth-century Mexican fiction and for those seeking classics of the Latin American boom.