Felipe Montero, a Mexican school teacher answers a want ad in the newspaper. Because it seems made for him. So, he went to the address and find out an aged widower wants to write a memoir of her late husband, who was a General.
Felipe wants to leave because this house is too weird for him. This old house is buffering between modern and commercial spaces. It’s quite dark in the daylight; and also there are no electric lights in the house. But the old lady’s bedroom was quite bright because of multiple candles.
Felipe wants to leave the house, but stay is also the part of the deal. Still, he was going to refuse, and when he saw the lady with her beautiful green eyes, Aura, he stayed. The story goes by.
Aura is a literary fiction written by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. It’s writing style is a unique one. It’s second-person narrative literary, which was quite difficult and also not usual. But Carlos Fuentes did it very well. The flow of the story was good. The surprising elements will shake the readers as well.
Like the protagonist, readers also get lost in the world of darkness, labyrinth corridors, strange dual identities, aged widower Consuelo’s behavior, or Aura’s. The darkness will haunt you as well as the romance will flaunt you. You, Felipe Montero wants to know what will happen next as well as you, yourself also wants to stop the moments where exactly you are.
Carlos Fuentes indicates Felipe Montero as you, but it seems like he basically indicates the reader himself. And that’s why it became first moving, page-turning, and fascinated books.
In this the world of Magic Realism, you will be lost with the elements of gothic horror, oldish flavor, suspicious identities, highly poetic, metaphorical, and symbolic languages, sexual passion, hypnotism, and also transmigration of souls.
After reading this short novel I felt Carlos is a genius writer. And Latin literature is something that is out of this world. This is the third time I read this book. First time I was reading this book at the age of 16. After Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos is one of my favorites writers for Latin literature.
