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Gringo Viejo [Paperback]

Fuentes Carlos (Author)
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Coleccion Tierra firme January 1, 1994
El Gringo viejo es un norteamericano que viaja a México durante los años de la Revolución. Su meta es encontrarse en México con Pancho Villa, el legendario guerrillero. La vida de este hombre atormentado y complejo tomará rumbos inesperados. En el horizonte de la obra literaria de Carlos Fuentes (1928), Gringo viejo representa una muestra e madurez, de sabiduría formal y de aliento fabulador.

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El destino del periodista Ambrose Bierce ha intrigado a nuestros escritores desde que se desvaneció en México en 1914. Ahora Carlos Fuentes ha hecho una excelente novela sobre este misterio. --Los Angeles Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Text: Spanish

Product Details

  • Paperback: 191 pages
  • Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica; First edition (January 1, 1994)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 9681617827
  • ISBN-13: 978-9681617820
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,846,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Las fronteras..., December 17, 1999
This review is from: Gringo Viejo (Paperback)
Gringo Viejo no tiene el mismo estilo de La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, es más ligero. El libro nos lleva a conocer las fronteras u obstaculos que tiene cada uno de los personajes y las de ambas culturas: Norteamericana y Mexicana. En lo personal me gustaría un final distinto. Si alguien quisiera comentarlo personalmente mande un mail.
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4.0 out of 5 stars This is a book about frontiers: those between the USA and Mexico., August 8, 2010
Gringo Viejo by Carlos Fuentes

This is a book about frontiers: those between the USA and Mexico. On the one side we have the Mexican revolution with its different manifestations of terror and its popular uprising, until it arrives to the final degeneration of the capitalistic vortex: the dominion and corruption of a bourgeoisie without scruples and the continuation of the exploitation of the Mexican people by the new upper class. On the other side the tense relationship between the two countries.

Fuentes talks about four principal characters in in this artistic composition--two men and two women.

The main character--Gringo Viejo--the American Ambrose Bierce, a renown writer and newspaperman, that crosses the frontier South to fight with Pancho Villa. Bierce is a man that comes in search of a violent death, because he refuses to die of boredom. Because he wants to realize the American Dream of being a good looking cadaver, and because in his country--the USA--he has no more frontiers to cross. Fuentes helps Bierce by imagining frontiers that have no salvation.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars diferencias entre culturas, June 22, 2003
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Todd (Boca Raton, Fla) - See all my reviews
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Ese libro nos muestra las cuantiosas maneras en que lo norteamericano diferencia con lo mexicano. Siendo norteamericano, me identifico con Ambrose Bierce y Harriet que llevan sus costumbres y modales en todo momento. "La búsqueda" que efectúa el Gringo Viejo es algo que va en contra de las normas de la sociedad y me parece un poco tabú. La forma en que Fuentes escribe no añade nada al contenido ya que sus historias no parecen auténticas. Realmente no recomiendo el libro a los que buscan una diversión; pero sería aconsejable leer el libro si sea un estudiante de la revolución mexicana.
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