Artemio Cruz Artemio Cruz's mansion, Mexico City
The present
The whole novel is spoken from this bed, where the old man drifts in and out of consciousness while his wife and daughter wait for him to die and for the will to be read. From the mansion of a life's plunder, his memory reaches back for the moments that made and unmade him.
Framing narrative
inferred The dying Artemio lies in his grand house in Mexico City, placed among the wealthy western districts such as Las Lomas; the specific mansion is invented and sited in that part of the real city.
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