Where the Air Is Clear (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Carlos Fuentes
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Mythic
- Time of Work: Early to mid-1950’s
- 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
Places Discussed
*Mexico City. Mexico’s capital city is the central location of the novel, providing a modern urban setting that contrasts with the country’s primarily rural history. Carlos Fuentes uses the city as a protagonist to which the characters must react as much as they interact with one another. Against this emerging modern backdrop, the characters struggle to understand their individual destinies, and in a collective sense, they embody the new, rising, modern Mexico coming to terms with the fallout of its early twentieth century revolution. The urban setting...
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