19 - La Chingada Muerte: Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz
Books of Some Substance
English - December 20, 2017 20:01 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MB - ★★★★ - 61 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Philosophy bulgakov classics bellow book books fiction hesse hurston kawabata lewis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On this episode David and Eric are joined by Frida Pulido, an active and engaging member of the Books of Some Substance bookclub, to discuss Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz.
David questions the value of reading about such a despicable protagonist for such an extended page count, Eric finds humanity in where we all begin and eventually end, Frida schools us in the variety and elasticity of the colloquial word "chingada," and we all find plenty of substance in Fuentes' writing and philosophizing on death, memory, pain, and time.
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