Gringo Viejo / Old Gringo

by Carlos Fuentes

2020-05-26 13:56:22

En 1913, el escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce se despidió de sus amigos con cartas en las que se declaraba viejo y cansado. Quería morir y escoger cómo. La enfermedad y el accidente le parecían indignas de él. En cambio,... Read more
En 1913, el escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce se despidió de sus amigos con cartas en las que se declaraba viejo y cansado. Quería morir y escoger cómo. La enfermedad y el accidente le parecían indignas de él. En cambio, ser ajusticiado ante un paredón mexicano... Entró en México en noviembre y no se volvió a saber de él... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In 1913, the celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce sends farewell letters to his most intimate friends. Declaring himself old and tired, he goes out to seek his own death and mysteriously disappears into revolutionary Mexico. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa''s troops and dramatizes the conflict of North America''s two cultures locked in deadly embrace. Less

Book Details

File size9.4x5.9x0.8inches
Print pages229
PublisherAlfaguara
Publication date September 1, 2007
LanguageSpanish
ISBN9789705800122
Carlos Fuentes Macías (Nov 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. He was the author of 24 novels, including The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo and Terra Nostra, and al...

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