Terra Nostra Paperback | Pages: 785 pages

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Original Title:	Terra Nostra
ISBN:	1564782875 (ISBN13: 9781564782878)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1977)

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Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans.

-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 see and say.- Milan Kundera

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Title	:	Terra Nostra
Author	:	Carlos Fuentes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 785 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2003 by Dalkey Archive Press (first published November 11th 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Literature. Novels. Cultural. Latin American. Spain

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Everyone in this book is insane and is trying to fuck, kill or mutilate someone, and its also about history repeating itself like all his other books

Stop me if you have heard this before?A Mexican writer walks into the hotel bar. He joins his fellow Latin Americans, an Argentinian, a Chilean, a Peruvian and a Colombian (Julio Cortázar, Jose Donoso, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez) and says Todos los buenos latinoamericanos vienen a morir a Paris. (Every good Latin American comes to Paris to die). They all laugh in agreement.The date is December 31, 1999. The end of the Millenium. The world is ravaged by microbes causing world

Terra Nostra is a dreamscape, an elaborate allegory, infused with mysticism, symbolism, numerology, theology. There are tales nested within tales, dreams within dreams, a mirror of our world distorted beyond reason, but not recognition. The linear is discarded in favour of the circular, the finite arc of human life replaced by an endless cycle of repetition. In this view of history as a singularity there is no Old World or New, no past or future, only man and his own fractal nature, which is at

A Möbius striptease.Time is a permeable membrane.Cervantes and Caesar, Bosch and Quetzalcoatl.Historical figures rise, maggot-ridden from their tombs to conquer, make love, philosophize and dissolve in the polychromatic strobe of dreams. These fantasies fuse with antiquity, birthed from moldered tomes, exhausting the faiths of pious men, eviscerating kings, and bleeding across timelines.The symbolic journey of this novel is an intense, dense, immense expedition through Old Spain, New Spain, and

Today is the day that Carlos Fuentes died. I opened to a chapter called "Aurora" and read, just now. After I heard about it. It's incredible how a book can become a companion. A friend in life's past chapters who came and went. I am grateful Carlos Fuentes for your story, for its place in the setting of my memory.

well, this is a big big book and i dig the big ones so i carried it around like a cinderblock in my bag for a while. and the first paragraph ranks as one of the great first paragraphs. check this out: Incredible the first animal that dreamed of another animal. Monstrous the first vertebrae that succeeded in standing on two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally and happily crawling close to the ground through the slime of creation. Astounding the first telephone call, the

This pink brick was on the shelves of The Monkey's Paw, a store more likely to sell you a dusty stuffed crow or pornography from 1850's than some crazed scream from Carlos Fuentes about faith and death and history. I had wanted to read the book for a decade or so, snatching up the fat Penguin- an edition I'd never seen before- on my way back from the liquor store. 890 pages of size 3 font, three months, two countries, a 50th birthday, and several cities later, I won't even begin to address the