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A review by liberrydude
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
3.0
The Old Gringo is not about Ambrose Bierce but about Mexico. I can see the greatness of this work. It’s erotic, sacrilegious, cruel, stark, dark, light. It constantly goes from reality to dreams. It’s the history, anthropology, and psychology of the nation.
Some great lines:
Page 70 “No more West, boys, except in the blurry frontier of an empty whiskey glass.”
Page 75. “... the ludicrous filth, the farts of God, we call humanity.”
Page 76. “ We are caught in the business of forever killing people whose skin is of a different color. Mexico is proof of what we could have been,....”
Page 129 You can never go home again. A familiar theme in literature. “ Home is a memory.”
Page 145. “ To be a gringo in Mexico ...ah, that is euthanasia.”
I’m going to have reread it. For sure.
Some great lines:
Page 70 “No more West, boys, except in the blurry frontier of an empty whiskey glass.”
Page 75. “... the ludicrous filth, the farts of God, we call humanity.”
Page 76. “ We are caught in the business of forever killing people whose skin is of a different color. Mexico is proof of what we could have been,....”
Page 129 You can never go home again. A familiar theme in literature. “ Home is a memory.”
Page 145. “ To be a gringo in Mexico ...ah, that is euthanasia.”
I’m going to have reread it. For sure.