Few novelists have shaped the literary landscape of Latin America more so than Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012). In 1958, his first novel, La región más transparente (Where the Air is Clear), ushered in a new era in Mexican letters, as it closed the chapter on a provincial focus and announced the importance of the metropolitan capital. Moreover, the narrative experimentation in Fuentes’ first novel was quickly followed in 1962 by what is arguably his most well-known work, La muerte de Artemio Cruz (The Death of Artemio Cruz). Along with other aspiring artists during the 1960s and 1970s, Fuentes joined the ranks of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar, among others, as a member of the so-called Latin American “Boom.” During the fifty-year span of Fuentes’ writing career, his prolific corpus of work would include over twenty novels, as well as numerous volumes of essays, dramas, and screenplays.