The Old Gringo | Characters
The Old Gringo is an imaginative attempt to explain the disappearance in Mexico of the American writer Ambrose Bierce. Bierce is the "Old Gringo," although his actual name is not revealed until the last part of the novel. He seems to have developed early in his career as a writer the misanthropic attitudes which characterized the late writings of Mark Twain. "To be a gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia," he said before going into Mexico in search of Pancho Villa's Northern Division. He sent a few letters back to his daughter, and then he disappeared. Fuentes has made a...
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