The latest in the extensive Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz is an anthology of essays by learned scholars discussing the finer points of the novel "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1962) by contemporary Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. This novel about the legacy of the Mexican Revolution, as told from the perspective of Artemio Cruz on his deathbed, expresses a core search for Mexican identity in the wake of promises, failures, and hopes following the Revolution.
Emerson essays are like the orphic and Eleusinian celetial odes that inspire and guide every awakened intellect. Similar to Plutarch essays which are divine physicians for the Soul. They never leave the reader where he found himself initially, The writtings uplift one to a higher Elysian sphere.
This political-historical novel tells the story of a man on trial for treason in Russia in the 1930s, and invites the reader to consider questions of power, betrayal, and the cost of political freedom.
Compared to the works of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, "The House on Mango Street" is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. Cisneros' structurally and thematically bold work explores the often-violent coming of age of a young Mexican-American woman. This new title in the "Modern Critical Interpretations" series analyzes the work through full-length critical essays, and features a bibliography, notes on the contributing writers, a chronology of the author's life, an index, and an introductory essay by esteemed critic Harold Bloom.
