Aura (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Mexico City, Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Gothic fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Folkloric or magical people, Love or romance, Supernatural, Witches or witchcraft, Mexico or Mexicans
- Locales: New York, NY, Mexico City, Mexico
Characters Discussed
Felipe Montero (feh-LEE-peh mohn-TEH-roh), a young historian and part-time teacher in a private school. Bored with his present job of teaching “useless facts” to “sleepy pupils,” he desires a change from his daily routine, and he is drawn to an advertisement that seems addressed personally to him. Restless and curious, he is particularly susceptible to the strange events and relationships that he encounters when he accepts the job of translating the memoirs of Señora Consuelo Llorente’s dead husband. Felipe leaves the known outer world and enters...
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