Fuentes, Carlos (Vol. 3) - Fuentes, Carlos 1928–

Fuentes, Carlos 1928–

Fuentes is a Mexican novelist.

A … complex example of the twofold structural procedure of fragmentation and reconstruction is found in Carlos Fuentes' novel, Change of Skin (Cambio de piel)…. Change of Skin is an assemblage of elements that have been combined into an extremely complicated composition. The temporal and spatial relationships of Change of Skin are … comprehensive … and … ambitious insofar as the book's structure posits within itself the possibility of freedom from the evident irreversibility of time.

At a first appraisal, Change of Skin appears to be divided into three parts: a conventional prologue, a body, and an epilogue. [In the] rather short opening portion … Cortes' conquest of Mexico … is counterpointed against the novel's present action in the Aztecs' sacred city of Cholula. Fuentes recounts Cortes' passages in the present tense and the ostensibly present action...

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