Carlos Fuentes
Paperback | Pages: 785 pages Rating: 4.09 | 963 Users | 88 Reviews
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| Title | : | Terra Nostra |
| Author | : | Carlos Fuentes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 785 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2003 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published November 11th 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Literature. Novels. Cultural. Latin American. Spain |
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Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans. -Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say.- Milan KunderaBe Specific About Books In Pursuance Of Terra Nostra
| Original Title: | Terra Nostra |
| ISBN: | 1564782875 (ISBN13: 9781564782878) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1977) |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 963 Users | 88 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Terra Nostra
well, this is a big big book and i dig the big ones so i carried it around like a cinderblock in my bag for a while. and the first paragraph ranks as one of the great first paragraphs. check this out: Incredible the first animal that dreamed of another animal. Monstrous the first vertebrae that succeeded in standing on two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally and happily crawling close to the ground through the slime of creation. Astounding the first telephone call, theYou know I only bought this book because I read the list of characters and couldn't make any sense of it. And I couldn't make any sense of where the book was going till about half way (and that's a lot of pages), although all the separate parts were completely fascinating. Then the bits gradually started to come together - and my head pretty much exploded with the brilliance of it all. Worth the wait, let me tell you.
i finally finished this goddamn book after reading it on and off for six months. it's pretty long and about some sort of mystical apocalypse and tawdry sex and systems of government that doon't involving slaughtering everything (spoiler: you have to slaughter everything) all the cool refs from your favorite part of european history [prognathic inbreds screwing up ruling the wealthiest and most powerful empire at the time in order to cling to some dutch marshes].there's also some nice sentences,
This pink brick was on the shelves of The Monkey's Paw, a store more likely to sell you a dusty stuffed crow or pornography from 1850's than some crazed scream from Carlos Fuentes about faith and death and history. I had wanted to read the book for a decade or so, snatching up the fat Penguin- an edition I'd never seen before- on my way back from the liquor store. 890 pages of size 3 font, three months, two countries, a 50th birthday, and several cities later, I won't even begin to address the
This is an amazing book. I read it nearly 20 years ago, and if I were sent to Radio 4's Desert Island this would be my choice of book. It took me six months to read (and I'm a fast reader!)- I had to keep dipping in and out, as it is such a rich and complex text. Part SF, part historical fiction, and with more than a touch of magical realism it is a book I will re-read at some point. In it Elizabeth Tudor is married off to Philip II of Spain, Aztec gods are brought to life, and cinema is
Fuentess sprawling phantasmagoria acts as an exploration of Spain in the midst of its golden age and on the brink of discovering the new world; a world which replete leaves the reader ensorcelled by the hypnagogic beauty of the imagery which Fuentes conjures up;The shipwrecked youth believed he had been embalmed by the sea; blood pounded at his temples; he squinted through half-opened eyes; the sight of this fog-shrouded desert was perhaps not too different from what he would have discovered at
I don't think I was the right reader for this book, it seems to have settled uneasily within me.I am tempted to say the book is about politics and above all political forms. An alternative and ahistorical Philip II (married to Elizabeth of England) fights to impose his will and Catholic orthodoxy on the heterodox rebels of the Low Countries. The external politics is mirrored in his construction of El Escorial as an embodiment of the Orthodox unity he is trying to impose - however even this
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