"Two narratives are intertwined here: one concerns Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestra conductor, and his great passion for a red-haired Mexican diva, Inez Prada; the other is a mysterious, unforgettable telling of the first encounter in human history between a man and a woman.
The dissonant drama of Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust, which brings Atlan-Ferrara and Inez together, resounds on every page of this haunting work, while the emergent love of neh-el and ah-nel - the original lovers - reminds us of the Faustian pact of love and death. Linking these two stories is a beautiful crystal seal that belongs to Atlan-Ferrara, its meaning an enigma that obsesses him.
It may be that this ardent, strange, and seductive object gives its bearer the ability to read unknown languages and hear music of impossible beauty." "The duality of Inez mirrors two eras, one deeply remote and one perhaps yet to come, but the passions evoked in both transcend the limits of time and space. And, like the light refracted through the seal, they spill forth from prehistory and spiral out through infinity."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0374175535
ISBN-13
9780374175535
Publication Date
May 2002
Item Weight
0.70 pounds
Length
8.74 inch
Width
5.98 inch
Height
0.75 inch
First Sentence
We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death.
Carlos Fuentes Macías (Ciudad de Panamá, 11 de noviembre de 1928-Ciudad de México, 15 de mayo de 2012) fue un escritor mexicano. Junto a Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa y Julio Cortázar, es uno de los exponentes centrales del llamado *boom* latinoamericano. Entre sus novelas destacan *La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz* y *Aura.* Recibió, entre otros, el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en 1977, el Cervantes en 1987 y el Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 1994. Hasta el día de su fallecimiento fue considerado candidato para obtener el Premio Nobel de Literatura por un sector del público y de la crítica literaria.
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Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are *The Death of Artemio Cruz* (1962), *Aura* (1962), *Terra Nostra* (1975), *The Old Gringo* (1985) and *Christopher Unborn* (1987). In his obituary, *The New York Times* described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s". He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.
Fuente/Source: [Wikipedia](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Fuentes)
