Distant Relations (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Occult
- Time of Work: The early 1980’s
- Setting: Paris, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: Caribbean, France or French people, Surrealism, Ghosts or apparitions, 1980’s, Mexico or Mexicans, Archaeology or archaeologists
- Locales: Caribbean, Mexico, Paris, France
Characters Discussed
The Comte de Branly, a wealthy French aristocrat whose primary interest is foreign travel. At the age of eighty-three, this highly intelligent, cultured man is emaciated and nearly bald but still retains a rigid military bearing. Most of this complex novel of parallel lives and reincarnations concerns the Comte’s surrealistic adventure in a strange mansion outside Paris where he is confined as the result of an auto accident. Because of his advanced age, however, it is probable that much of what he believes to have occurred was in fact hallucinations....
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