Terra nostra (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: The first century before Christ to 1999
- Setting: Rome, Paris, Mexico, and Spain
- 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
Characters Discussed
Pollo Phoibee (POH-loh FOY-bee), in Spanish Polo Febo (POH-loh FEH-boh), a young man in Paris in 1999 who works as a sidewalk hawker carrying a sandwich board. He is inquisitive, adventurous, and handsome, with shoulder-length blond hair and only one hand. He is proclaimed in the novel as the seeker of ultimate truth and is perhaps the possessor of some mysterious knowledge. He is transformed into one of the three bastard sons of Felipe the Fair and becomes the lover of Joanna Regina, the widow of Felipe. At times, he seems to be one of the narrators of the...
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