CHAPTER VIII: FROM MOCTEZUMA II TO NONOALCO IN 1968: TODOS LOS GATOS SON PARDOS.

Chapter VIII of the book "Lifting the Obsidian Mask: The Artistic Vision of Carlos Fuentes" is presented. It offers a critique to the play of Mexican essayist and novelist Carlos Fuentes entitled "Todos los gatos son pardos." It considers the work as complementing to the many achievements of Fuentes...

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Published in:Lifting The Obsidian Mask: The Artistic Vision of Carlos Fuentes pp. 139 - 160
Main Author: Gyurko, Lanin A.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 2007
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Summary:Chapter VIII of the book "Lifting the Obsidian Mask: The Artistic Vision of Carlos Fuentes" is presented. It offers a critique to the play of Mexican essayist and novelist Carlos Fuentes entitled "Todos los gatos son pardos." It considers the work as complementing to the many achievements of Fuentes in the genres of novel and short story. It notes that the play fuses Mexican history and ancient Aztec myth with that of the massacre in 1968 of the students in the Plaza of Nonoalco Tlatelolco.