Карлос Фуэнтес: The Years With Laura Diaz
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Жанр : Современная проза , Язык : en
The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes s most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City — tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico s demographic history and is a significant element in Fuentes s fictional world.Now the principal figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes s first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz. Fuentes s richly woven narrative tapestry of her life from 1905 to 1978 — filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds and colors, tastes and scents of Mexico — shows us this wonderful woman as she grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, and a complicated and alluring heroine whose brave honesty prevails despite her losing a brother, son, and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico s turbulent, often corrupt politics. In the end, Laura Diaz herself dies, after a life filled with tragedy and loss, but she is a happy woman, for she has borne witness to and helped to affect the course of history, and has loved and understood with unflinching honesty.