La Muerte De Artemio Cruz (Penguin Ediciones)

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Student Overview of The Death of Artemio Cruz - By: , 18 Feb 1999
Artemio Cruz, on his deathbead, passes through the events of his life in this Fuentes masterpiece. The novel is narrated in the first, second & third person, symbolic of the character's ego, id & superego. Cruz explores the deaths that spared him. His lack of courage & personal sacrafice, ironicallly, bring Cruz to fortune & fame. He leaves battle only to be heralded as a war hero. He escapes execution. Through deception, Artemio Curz earns permission to marry the sister of the man killed in his place. The language of the novel is rich & varied. The reader enters into the morphine-induced train of consciousness of Cruz, finds deathbed observations laced with old memories & jumps through the life of Cruz. La Muerte de Artemio Cruz is a novel of self--judgement. Before dying, Cruz examines the value of his existance.

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