Aura by Carlos Fuentes (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Aura by Carlos Fuentes. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including witchcraft, desire and duality. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 48-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Carlos Fuentes
• Presentation of Aura
• Summary of Aura
• Character study
  • Felipe Montero
  • Consuelo Llorente
  • Aura
• Analysis of Aura
  • Form
  • Themes

About Aura

Aura tells the story of the young historian Felipe Montero, who answers a newspaper advertisement to edit the memoirs of a deceased former general for publication. This brings him to the mysterious, shadowy mansion belonging to the eccentric elderly widow Consuelo Llorente and her beautiful young niece Aura, whom he immediately falls in love with. However, a series of increasingly disturbing coincidences suggest that the family is hiding a dark secret, and Felipe is soon drawn into a mysterious world of ritual and witchcraft where nothing is as it seems.

About Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes was a Mexican novelist, essayist and diplomat, and one of the key figures of the Latin American Boom, which was characterized by experimentation and innovation and brought a group of young writers from the continent to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s. In the course of an illustrious literary career spanning several decades, he wrote acclaimed novels such as Where the Air is Clear and The Death of Artemio Cruz, held professorships at prestigious universities including Harvard and Cambridge, and won a series of international literary awards. He was also very politically active, and reflected extensively on the historical and cultural structures governing life in Mexico. He died in 2012 at the age of 83.