Fuentes, Carlos 1928- creator text novel sp Madrid Santillana Ediciones Generales c2010 2010 monographic spa

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177 p. ; 24 cm. Comic novel that deals head-on with many of the gravest issues of 21st-century Mexico. Key to its hilarity is the idiosyncratic, self-absorbed voice of the narrator, an ambitious attorney who made his place in the public sphere by marrying the flatulent daughter of a biscuit magnate. When his wife, a woman prone to bizarre non sequiturs, begins a romance with a loutish official who oversees a barbaric and fraudulent government crackdown on crime, all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile an apparently heaven-sent child prophet appears at a busy Mexico City intersection, stopping traffic while starting a national debate. Adán en Edén is entertainingly freewheeling with its themes and cultural references, which include poverty, drug violence, sex, Mexican history, telenovelas, U.S.-Mexican immigration, and the Palm Pre smart phone. Fuentes even finds room for a precisely measured burlesque of Octavio Paz's role in promoting dogmatic factionalism in Mexican letters. Carlos Fuentes. Novel. Simultaneously publ. in Mexico. C. Fuentes, Mexican writer. nc----- n-mx--- Literatura mexicana Mexico Social conditions 21st century Fiction Mexico Politics and government 21st century Fiction Lawyers Mexico Fiction Prophets Fiction Mexico City (Mexico) Fiction PQ 7297 F954a 2010 863 Tiempo político Fuentes, Carlos 9788420405995 842040599X C3L 100503 20230410130905.0 96505