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Plot summary

Death of Artemio Cruz is dedicated to great Sociologist and Humanist C. Wright Mills. "The true voice of North America and great friend in the struggle for the people in Latin America," as Carlos Fuentes writes in the forword. In the end, though, it was a bad book Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... Look up Humanist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, West Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. ... Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. ...

Literary significance & criticism

"...a dominating theme in his work is the search for Mexican national identity. Of his eleven novels, it is in The Death of Artemio Cruz that this mindset is expressed most strongly", says reviewer Jim Tuck^[1].

Tuck goes on further to say,

"A grim story--but one that dramatically showcases the intensity of the author's desire to lock into the most poignant period of Mexico's history"^[1].

References

• Fuentes, Carlos (2 February 2001). La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, Spanish, Suma. ISBN 978-8466301961. 
• Fuentes, Carlos (May 1991). The Death of Artemio Cruz, English translation, Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-0374522834. 
• Cunniffe, Kathleen. The Fragmented Psyche of Mexico: The Narrative Structure of La Muerte de Artemio Cruz Through The Lens of Francisco González Pineda. Middle Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies. Retrieved on 2007-03-22.

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