Euler

Author: Carlos Fuentes
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Eula tells a story with magical realism. A man goes to a mysterious old mansion to work as a secretary, encountering a strange courtyard, an eccentric mistress, and a beautiful green-clad woman. A series of stories that blur the line between reality and fantasy unfold. The Eula selected and translated here is a masterpiece by Fuentes. Soon after its publication, the novel was translated into multiple languages and adapted into a film in Italy. The themes it explores remain: the past continues in reality, and reality is a repetition of the past. The fictional plot depicts an elderly, frail mistress using ancient secrets to reclaim her lost youth, causing fragments of history to cycle and repeat in the real world. The book also includes several short stories from the collection Song of the Blind (1964): Two Helènes, Morality, Pure Hearts, and Sea Serpent Hunting, among others, which serve as evidence of the author's past—present—future consciousness.