Christopher Unborn (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: January-October, 1992
- Setting: Mexico, chiefly Mexico City
- Principal Characters: Angel Palomar Y Fagoaga, Angeles, Christopher Unborn, Don Homero Fagoaga, Don Fernaneo Benítez, Hipi Toltec, Orphan Huerta, Baby Ba, Matamoros Moreno, Mamadoc, Don Ulises Lopez, Don Federico Robles Chacón
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Family or family life, Politics, Revolutionaries, Future, Reality, Mexico or Mexicans, Labor, Time, Comedy, Pollution, Satire
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico
By 1992, in Carlos Fuentes’ grim but comic vision, Mexico will be well on the road to disintegration. The northern part will have been annexed to the Sunbelt of the United States to form Mexamerica; the Yucatan will have been sold to Club Med to pay off some of the international debt; the area around Vera Cruz will be occupied by United States Marines. What remains of the country, especially the capital, which Fuentes frequently calls Makesicko City, will be strangling in garbage, sewage, and air pollution, all caused by overpopulation and decades of corrupt government.
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