Where the Air Is Clear (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: 1910-1954
- Setting: Mexico City, Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Mythological literature, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, Suffering, Class conflict, 1940’s, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic relations, City life, Human behavior, Tragedy, Mexico or Mexicans
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico
Characters Discussed
Federico Robles (feh-deh-REE- koh RROH-blehs), a wealthy and powerful business tycoon. Robles is born to peons working on the Ovando hacienda but has the opportunity to go to Morelia with a priest to serve as his sacristan. They go to the Zamacona hacienda, where Robles meets fifteen-year-old Mercedes Zamacona, with whom he begins sexual relations. After the lovers are found out, Robles flees and never again sees Mercedes, whom he made pregnant. Robles fights in the Mexican Revolution and later becomes a wealthy lawyer working for North American companies....
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