Stop to think

The last book I read was called “Social Security for the excluded majority” of Van Ginneken, but is boring and there aren’t characters…So I'll tell you the last book I read on holiday "La Región más transparente" by Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes is a novelist, essayist, political, screenwriter and very much ... Is a great Mexican character.

This novel combines socio-historical fiction with the facts that were taking place in Mexico during the early 20th century as the Mexican Revolution itself. The characters not only embodied… the most important milestones of Mexican history but are also traversed by tensions in world history, as the Russian Revolution, the emergence of Gandhi and the First World War.

All the characters are unique, are magic ... rather, they are surreal and as such their careers in history are also ... They have little impact on their lives, seem to default and just live what they happen to live and do what they do. Teodula Moctezuma is a mystical figure, is the symbol of old Mexico that comes from the Aztec people, represents the old order and want him back, has a follower which is Ixca Cienfuegos, who embodies the tension of contemporary life and the longing for the old without having lived, is the belief of "all past was better" and wants to return. This character is a kind of GOD… knows everything about everyone entering and leaving the rest of the characters revolve around him.

The rest of the characters embody the social sectors and classes and the contradictions between classes and living within them, are: los burgueses, lo satellites, los extranjeros, los intelectuales, los polas and others that I can’t remember… and of courses El pueblo!

It is a fantastic book, enveloping, magical ... totally recommended, is an approach to Mexican history and Latin American history in a very real issue but that deserves to be read…