Carlos Fuentes
Paperback | Pages: 785 pages Rating: 4.09 | 963 Users | 88 Reviews
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| Title | : | Terra Nostra |
| Author | : | Carlos Fuentes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 785 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2003 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published November 11th 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Literature. Novels. Cultural. Latin American. Spain |
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Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans. -Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say.- Milan KunderaDescribe Books In Pursuance Of Terra Nostra
| Original Title: | Terra Nostra |
| ISBN: | 1564782875 (ISBN13: 9781564782878) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1977) |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 963 Users | 88 ReviewsJudgment Based On Books Terra Nostra
A Möbius striptease.Time is a permeable membrane.Cervantes and Caesar, Bosch and Quetzalcoatl.Historical figures rise, maggot-ridden from their tombs to conquer, make love, philosophize and dissolve in the polychromatic strobe of dreams. These fantasies fuse with antiquity, birthed from moldered tomes, exhausting the faiths of pious men, eviscerating kings, and bleeding across timelines.The symbolic journey of this novel is an intense, dense, immense expedition through Old Spain, New Spain, andSimply the most exciting book I've read since Under the Volcano, Terra Nostra seeks to unify the mythology and politics of 15th Century Spain and the New World in one meteor-like work! Amazing! It literally has to be read to be believed.
Smell around this brick long enough (not long!) and you'll know whether you ought to read it. I know I did ;; and I did! And am better for it. But at any rate, wanted simply, in loo of a revieewooo, provide you with a non=representative passage which I'm sure many of you bookish folk will enjoy :::"You have named fifty stories, but you spoke of a thousand and one half days...""Fifty accounts are accounts beyond count, Filipe. For from each account came twenty others, inopportunely,
A masterpiece of a fiction. Impossible to summarize.
Stop me if you have heard this before?A Mexican writer walks into the hotel bar. He joins his fellow Latin Americans, an Argentinian, a Chilean, a Peruvian and a Colombian (Julio Cortázar, Jose Donoso, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and says Todos los buenos latinoamericanos vienen a morir a Paris. (Every good Latin American comes to Paris to die). They all laugh in agreement.The date is December 31, 1999. The end of the Millenium. The world is ravaged by microbes causing world
Terra Nostra has the most profound opening paragraph of any book this side of The Bible:Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. Monstrous the first vertebrate that succeeded in standing on two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally and happily crawling close to the ground through the slime of creation. Astounding the first telephone call, the first boiling water, the first song, the first loincloth.and then shortly after there, Fuentes lost me. Or,
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