The Old Gringo | Critical Overview
The Old Gringo has remained one of Carlos Fuentes’s most widely read novels, in part because of the star-studded Hollywood movie adaptation that followed shortly after its publication. Many of the early reviews of the book expressed admiration for the story and for Fuentes as an author and as a writer. At the same time, though, many reviewers held back their praise, unsure about the novel’s cool style. Earl Shorris’s review in The New York Times Review of Books showed deep respect for the issues that Fuentes touches upon in The Old Gringo: “It is the work of...
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