Dec 4, 2008
Christopher Unborn | Christopher Unborn
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: 1991-1992
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: Christopher, Angel Palomar y Fagoaga, Angeles Palomar y Fagoaga, Don Homero Fagoaga, Don Fernando Benitez, Lady Mamadoc, Concha Toro, Matamoros Moreno, D. C. Buckley, Will Gingerich
- 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
The Novel
Action and characterization are much less important in Christopher Unborn than themes
and linguistic games. The basic structure of the work, comprising the gestation of the title character
from conception to birth, derives directly from Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth century novel
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759- 1767), to which Fuentes refers both
directly and obliquely. Although the focus of the action is on the unborn Christopher, he participates
in nothing except his uterine development, which he describes graphically and explicitly....
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