Terra Nostra (1999) Novel

1. Terra Nostra (Latin American Literature) - Goodreads

  • The most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture.

  • Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's g…

Terra Nostra (Latin American Literature) - Goodreads

2. Terra Nostra - Dalkey Archive Press

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  • One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra Nostra is concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of...--One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra

Terra Nostra - Dalkey Archive Press

3. Terra Nostra: Cervantes and Carlos Fuentes - Vrye Weekblad

  • Mar 1, 2024 · A novel set between the 16th and 20th centuries. The influence of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake has already been pointed out. It has three parts.

  • Rereading and reimagining a seminal text that's about to mark its 50th anniversary.

Terra Nostra: Cervantes and Carlos Fuentes - Vrye Weekblad

4. Terra Nostra Summary - SuperSummary

Terra Nostra Summary - SuperSummary

5. Terra Nostra - The New York Times

  • Nov 7, 1976 · "Terra Nostra's" axial event is the construction of the Escorial, Spain's 16-century monastic palace and royal mausoleum near Madrid. Its ...

  • Fuentes clearly does not himself believe in such grand ambitions. He sees the ascetic retreat needed to realize them as perverse and self-destructive, their goals as illusory, pretentious and even dangerous. Besides, it can get pretty dark and cold inside these granite walls: "Perfect order," he says, "is the forerunner of perfect horror." To such pantheons, he here opposes gardens, to the whip, the seed; to uniformity, diversity; to changeless eternity, the ceaseless flow of human time in which anything is possible, nothing beyond belief. He dreams of an earth in a state of constant renewal, without political oppression, sexual prohibitions, plagues or gods. And without the finality (the "arrogant will for extinction") of monuments.

6. TERRA NOSTRA | Kirkus Reviews

  • Oct 1, 1976 · ... 1999, when the Seine is boiling, the Louvre has turned to crystal and ... FICTION · TERRA NOSTRA. shop now. amazon bookshop. bookshelf. Next book ...

  • History and the dream interpenetrate in this outsized novel which summons into fevered, hallucinatory existence the Spain that conquered the author's native Mexico. It is like a movie by Bunuel unreeling marvels, cruelties, compulsions—a Buneul, who had been given unlimited funds by some mad mogul. Fuentes' labyrinth starts in Paris in 1999, when the Seine is boiling, the Louvre has turned to crystal and the Eiffel Tower to sand. Flagellants parade the streets. On a bridge a man meets a woman with tattooed lips; he falls into the river; the story shifts back to Spain on the eve of the New World's discovery, it is a Spain of blood, torture, religious and sexual obsessions, ruled by El Senor, who hates life (God's greatest sin was the creation of man) and has immured himself in a necropolis. His mother consorts with the cadaver of her husband. Three bastard sons of El Senor's father by different mothers appear and reappear: they are identical, down to their six-toed feet and the red crosses that stain their backs. One is a pilgrim who ventures to the Mexico of human sacrifice, as cruel as Mother Spain. The second is Don Juan, mistaken by nuns for their husband, Christ. The third is an idiot wedded to a flatulent dwarf. A peasant girl, Celestina, reappears as a witch and then as a procuress. Suddenly the scene shifts to the future: Mexico under bombardment by North American Phantoms; then full circle back to a dying Paris. At the end the narrator has an interesting form of sexua...

TERRA NOSTRA | Kirkus Reviews

7. All Editions of Terra Nostra - Carlos Fuentes - Goodreads

  • All Editions of Terra Nostra ; Published July 1st 2003 by Dalkey Archive Press. Paperback, 785 pages ; Published June 2014 by Can Yayınları. Paperback, 1,088 ...

  • Editions for Terra Nostra: 1564782875 (Paperback published in 2003), 9750722027 (Paperback published in 2014), 0140049223 (Paperback published in 1978), ...

8. Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes - The Scrying Orb - WordPress.com

  • Aug 16, 2014 · This book is physically daunting. It's big. Dense. Heavy. Flipping to a random page reveals a tightly woven blanket of text, tightly packed ...

  • This book is physically daunting. It’s big. Dense. Heavy. Flipping to a random page reveals a tightly woven blanket of text, tightly packed and in small type. The prose is occasionally impenetrable…

Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes - The Scrying Orb - WordPress.com

9. The Terra Nostra: Zero Point (Novel and eBook) - The Worlds of Blake's 7

  • The Terra Nostra: Zero Point (Novel and eBook) ... During a skirmish with a small patrol of Federation pursuit ships, Orac is badly damaged. There is only one ...

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10. Terra Nostra - Carlos Fuentes - Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells

  • "Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can.

  • Philip II, the ‘Defender of the Faith’, is the most powerful monarch in the world. His reign terrorizes while a new world is being born. Philip is tired and

Terra Nostra - Carlos Fuentes - Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells

11. TERRA NOSTRA | Kirkus Reviews

  • ... 1999, when the Seine is boiling, the Louvre has turned to crystal and the ... FICTION · TERRA NOSTRA. shop now. amazon bookshop. bookshelf. Next book. TERRA ...

  • History and the dream interpenetrate in this outsized novel which summons into fevered, hallucinatory existence the Spain that conquered the author's native Mexico. It is like a movie by Bunuel unreeling marvels, cruelties, compulsions—a Buneul, who had been given unlimited funds by some mad mogul. Fuentes' labyrinth starts in Paris in 1999, when the Seine is boiling, the Louvre has turned to crystal and the Eiffel Tower to sand. Flagellants parade the streets. On a bridge a man meets a woman with tattooed lips; he falls into the river; the story shifts back to Spain on the eve of the New World's discovery, it is a Spain of blood, torture, religious and sexual obsessions, ruled by El Senor, who hates life (God's greatest sin was the creation of man) and has immured himself in a necropolis. His mother consorts with the cadaver of her husband. Three bastard sons of El Senor's father by different mothers appear and reappear: they are identical, down to their six-toed feet and the red crosses that stain their backs. One is a pilgrim who ventures to the Mexico of human sacrifice, as cruel as Mother Spain. The second is Don Juan, mistaken by nuns for their husband, Christ. The third is an idiot wedded to a flatulent dwarf. A peasant girl, Celestina, reappears as a witch and then as a procuress. Suddenly the scene shifts to the future: Mexico under bombardment by North American Phantoms; then full circle back to a dying Paris. At the end the narrator has an interesting form of sexua...

TERRA NOSTRA | Kirkus Reviews

12. Terra Nostra | novel by Fuentes - Britannica

  • trans. Terra nostra) explores the cultural substrata of New and Old Worlds as the author ... (1999; The Years with Laura Díaz), Instinto de Inez (2001; Inez), and ...

  • Other articles where Terra Nostra is discussed: Carlos Fuentes: Terra nostra (1975; “Our Land,” Eng. trans. Terra nostra) explores the cultural substrata of New and Old Worlds as the author, using Jungian archetypal symbolism, seeks to understand his cultural heritage. Diana; o, la cazadora solitaria (1994; Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone) is a…

Terra Nostra | novel by Fuentes - Britannica
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