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Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle. No library descriptions found. |
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> Le livre est dédié à Luis Bunuel et telle, une musique de film, Fuentes fait courir une chanson enfantine tout au long du roman (A la claire fontaine). Une écriture riche et une belle capacité à innover.
—Danieljean (Babelio)
> Lecture / Ecriture : https://www.lecture-ecriture.com/3613-Une-certaine-parent%C3%A9-Carlos-Fuentes