In one of this author's novels, the protagonist gazes into the Orvieto fresco until the Âgures in the painting turn and beginto speak to him, and another character says "Listen.
In one of this author's novels, the protagonist gazes into the Orvieto fresco until the Âgures in the painting turn and beginto speak to him, and another character says "Listen. I want you to hear my story. This is my story," all spelled backwards. Inthat novel by him, a series of castaways with six toes on each foot and a red cross on the shoulder hand the main character greenbottles containing manuscripts. This author used all three narrative points of view in a book whose main character rapes, butthen falls in love with, Regina, and schemes to get his hands on the properties of a dying landowner by marrying his daughterCatalina. He wrote a complicated novel that shifts from Paris in 1999 to the Spanish court of Philip II, and penned a book inwhich a business tycoon recalls theMexican Revolution and other incidents in flashbacks. For 10 points, name thisMexicanauthor of Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz.
In one of this author's novels, the protagonist gazes into the Orvieto fresco until the Âgures in the painting turn and beginto speak to him, and another character says "Listen.
Carlos Fuentes [Macias]