Terra nostra (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Historical allegory
- Time of Work: From the first century to New Year’s Eve, 1999
- Setting: Rome, Paris, Mexico, and Spain
- Principal Characters: Pollo Phoibee, Celestina, Felipe, Isabel, Felipe the Fair, Joanna Regina, Guzmán, The three Bastards, Tiberius Caesar
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Sex or sexuality, Future, Paris, Kings, queens, or royalty, Mexico or Mexicans, Spain or Spanish people, Rome
- Locales: Mexico, Spain, Paris, France, Rome, Italy
The Novel
Although the narrative of this complex novel begins on July 14, 1999, in Paris, and ends on New Year’s Eve of the same year in the same city, the historical time frame of the events spans many centuries. In Paris, Pollo Phoibee meets Celestina, a naive young woman with tattooed lips, who asks him to explain to her the mysteries of chaotic modern civilization. As Pollo slips and falls into the river Seine, the time of the narrative shifts to the first century and the assassination of Tiberius Caesar, and to the sixteenth century of Felipe, King Philip II (also called...
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