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    Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Aura with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Aura by Carlos Fuentes, which blends elements of magical realism, fantasy and the Gothic novel to create a highly original and disorienting narrative. It follows a young historian called Felipe Montero, who has just been hired by the eccentric widow Consuelo Llorente to work on her late husband’s memoirs. As the narrative progresses, he slowly begins to unravel the bizarre relationship between Consuelo and her beautiful niece Aura, with consequences that he could never have imagined. Carlos Fuentes was one of the most influential Latin American writers of the 20th century, and his novels, essays and short stories, which often engage with the politics and history of his country, represent an essential landmark in Mexican literature.

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    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMay 31, 2018
    ISBN9782808002301
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      Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      MEXICAN NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER AND ESSAYIST

      Born in Panama City in 1928.

      Died in Mexico City in 2012.

      Literary awards:

      Rómula Gallegos International Novel Prize, 1977 (for Terra Nostra)

      Miguel de Cervantes Prize, 1987

      Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, 1994

      Notable honours:

      Professor of Latin American Literature at Columbia University (1978) and Harvard University (1983)

      Notable works:

      Where the Air is Clear (1958), novel

      The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), novel

      Terra Nostra (1975), novel

      The Old Gringo (1985), novel

      Carlos Fuentes was born in Panama on 11 November 1928. His father was a Mexican diplomat, so he lived and went to school in numerous Latin American cities, including Buenos Aires, Santiago and Montevideo, although he spent all his holidays in his parents’ homeland. He studied law at the University of Mexico in Mexico City, before moving to Geneva to study economics at the Institute of Advanced International Studies. He began writing at a young age, and worked as a contributing journalist for the magazine Hoy. He published his first novel, Where the

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