Vlad
Written by Carlos Fuentes
Narrated by Robert Fass
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) was one of the most influential and celebrated voices in Latin American literature. He was the author of 24 novels, including Aura, The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo and Terra Nostra, and also wrote numerous plays, short stories, and essays. He received the 1987 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor. Fuentes was born in Panama City, the son of Mexican parents, and moved to Mexico as a teenager. He served as an ambassador to England and France, and taught at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Columbia. He died in Mexico City in 2012.
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Reviews for Vlad
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A woman's hand in black gloves offered me the platter of organ meat. I felt revulsion, but my manners required that I take a bit of liver from here and a bit of tripe from there. . .
Yves Navarro finds himself a slave to class and upbringing throughout his encounter with the supernatural, this occurs to his detriment. Likewise the reader owes a debt to Fuentes and gives him a few passes. I know this reader did. There is a core of a good novel here. Details about the health and attentions of Fuentes at the time of Vlad aren't readily availible. Fuentes did more than most to inform my sense of history 20 years ago. I can forgive an afterthought of a novel devoted to one's homeland becoming a failed state. I know that disappointment if not the pain. There are few surprises here. There are also splashes of genuine color and history. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Definitely a quick read. A great book about a vampire living in Mexico City from one of my favorite authors.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A fast-paced and humorous novella that is also a genuinely scary vampire story for adults. For Fuentes, this is a trifle, but he enjoyed trifles. The book captures his humor, his sense of fun, and his love for pop culture. Like the best of pop culture, it is thought-provoking, as Fuentes considers the compulsion to escape the ultimate convention -- mortality.