Distant relations
Fuentes, Carlos (1928-2012)
Distant relations / Carlos Fuentes ; translation by Margaret Sayers Peden - 1st Dalkey Archive ed. - Normal : Dalkey Archive Press , 2006. - 225 p. ; 21 cm. - Latin American literature series .
Originally published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle.
9781564783455
2005056073
PQ7297.F793 / F313 2006
LAS FIC FUE
Distant relations / Carlos Fuentes ; translation by Margaret Sayers Peden - 1st Dalkey Archive ed. - Normal : Dalkey Archive Press , 2006. - 225 p. ; 21 cm. - Latin American literature series .
Originally published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle.
9781564783455
2005056073
PQ7297.F793 / F313 2006
LAS FIC FUE