Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis) E-Book

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Aura by Carlos Fuentes, which blends elements of magical realism, fantasy and the Gothic novel to create a highly original and disorienting narrative. It follows a young historian called Felipe Montero, who has just been hired by the eccentric widow Consuelo Llorente to work on her late husband’s memoirs. As the narrative progresses, he slowly begins to unravel the bizarre relationship between Consuelo and her beautiful niece Aura, with consequences that he could never have imagined. Carlos Fuentes was one of the most influential Latin American writers of the 20th century, and his novels, essays and short stories, which often engage with the politics and history of his country, represent an essential landmark in Mexican literature.

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CARLOS FUENTES

MEXICAN NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER AND ESSAYIST

Born in Panama City in 1928.Died in Mexico City in 2012.Literary awards:Rómula Gallegos International Novel Prize, 1977 (for Terra Nostra)Miguel de Cervantes Prize, 1987Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 1994Notable honours:Professor of Latin American Literature at Columbia University (1978) and Harvard University (1983)Notable works:Where the Air is Clear (1958), novelThe Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), novelTerra Nostra (1975), novelThe Old Gringo (1985), novel

Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama on 11 November 1928. His father was a Mexican diplomat, so he lived and went to school in numerous Latin American cities, including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, although he spent all his holidays in his parents’ homeland. He studied law at the University of Mexico in Mexico City, before moving to Geneva to study economics at the Institute of Advanced International Studies. He began writing at a young age, and worked as a contributing journalist for the magazine Hoy. He published his first novel, Where the Air is Clear, which is considered to be a key forerunner of the Latin American Boom, in 1958 at the age of 29. In addition to his impressive literary career, which included professorships at prestigious universities such as Columbia and Cambridge, Fuentes was very politically active in Latin American society, and used his writing to reflect on the historical and cultural structures governing life in Mexico.

Fuentes died in 2012, leaving behind a vast body of work comprising essays, novels and short stories. Unlike his contemporaries Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian novelist, 1927-2014) and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian writer, born in 1936), he never received the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he is nonetheless undoubtedly one of the most important writers of the 20th century not just in Latin America, but in the Spanish-speaking world as a whole. During his lifetime, he received some of the most prestigious honours for Spanish-language writing, including the Mexican National Prize for Arts and Sciences, the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award. His works, which blur the boundaries between history as a discipline and literature as fiction, are an essential landmark in Latin American writing.

AURA

A MEXICAN GOTHIC NOVEL

Genre: Gothic novel/fantastic novelReference edition: Fuentes, C. (1986) Aura. Trans. Kemp, L. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.1st edition: 1962Themes: witchcraft, desire, ritual, duality

Aura