A Change of Skin (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Plot: Experimental
- Time of Work: April 11, 1965
- Setting: Mexico City, Xochicalco, and Cholula
- Principal Characters: Javier, Elizabeth, Franz, Isabel, Freddy Lambert
- Genres: Long fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: 1960’s, Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, Authors or writers, Mexico or Mexicans, Nazism or Nazis, Pyramids
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico, Cholula, Mexico, Xochicalco, Mexico
The Novel
Carlos Fuentes’s A Change of Skin is a difficult novel when judged by almost any standards. At least part of its difficulty lies in the fact that it continually frustrates the reader’s expectations of what a novel should be, and of how a novel should be constructed. The average reader expects the novel to “tell a story,” to recount in some intelligible way events which at least could have happened in the “real world.” The reader expects the novel, in a word, to be mimetic. Yet in A Change of Skin, Fuentes constructs a world that is absolutely...
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