Obras Reunidas: Obras Reunidas I: Narrativa Breve (Hardcover)

In this his second volume of his collected works collection, Carlos Fuentes contains two of his most significant works on Mexico City: la region mas transparente and Agua Quemada. This fist novel was published by FCE in 1958 and does not show a metropolis after radical transformations in its social, political and economical life. This second Novel also published by FCE in 1981 are portraits that form as a group a more complex image by its fragmentary quality, but at the same time they reflect the deterioration of the one that was called "the City of the Palaces," become place of lacks off and "unpunished violence." These works contributes to reveal the city as the character of the literature.