La muerte de Artemio Cruz

La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962) is one of Carlos Fuentes’s most celebrated novels. On his deathbed, a powerful tycoon and former revolutionary soldier relives his life, a story Fuentes uses to examine how the ideals of the Mexican Revolution were betrayed by corruption and ambition.

It is a landmark of the Latin American Boom. Fuentes also wrote La región más transparente and Aura — take care not to mix up his titles on the exam.