For 10 points, name this novel about the last days of a Mexican tycoon, written by Carlos Fuentes.
The protagonist of this novel often recalls an old lover saying: "I waited for him that morning. We rode our horses across the river." While taken as a prisoner of war, the protagonist escapes into an abandoned mine only to meet his captors again at the exit. As a child, the protagonist made candles with the mulatto Lunero; as an adult he buys out Don Gamaliel Bernal and takes a series of lovers including (*) Laura, Lilia, and Regina. Dedicated to the sociologist C. Wright Mills, it cycles from third person to first person to second person, though the first-person sections are mostly set in a hospital where the title character converses with his wife Catalina and daughter Teresa, who want to know the location of his will. For 10 points, name this novel about the last days of a Mexican tycoon, written by Carlos Fuentes.
The protagonist of this novel often recalls an old lover saying: "I waited for him that morning.
The Death of Artemio Cruz [or La Muerte de Artemio Cruz]