Where the Air Is Clear (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Setting: Mexico City
- Principal Characters: Federico Robles, Norma Laragoiti, Hortensia Chacón, Rodrigo Pola, Ixca Cienfuegos, Manuel Zamacona
- 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
The Story:
Rising from his peasant origins, Federico Robles subscribed to the myth of bourgeois stability and eventually made his way to the top of a powerful financial empire in Mexico City. He created this empire in the years immediately following the Mexican Revolution. In an act of rebellion against his mestizo heritage, Robles married a green-eyed woman named Norma Laragoiti, a self-absorbed materialist. During his marriage to Norma, Robles took as his mistress the blind mestizo woman Hortensia Chacón, who had abandoned her petty functionary husband. With Hortensia,...
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