Carlos Fuentes

Latin American boom is the explosion of Latin American literature that took place between 1960s and 1980s. A lot of the writers were modernists who wanted to do things in literature that have never been done before. Carlos Fuentes’s works were told from the perspective of multiple narrators that were meant for the personality of the characters and introduce complexities of a human or national personality. 

Some things out of the story of Chac Mool that represent Mexico’s past and present are the religion. Spaniards arriving in Mexico and bringing their religion that is why Mexican’s worship Christ and not Buddha or Mohammad. The Mexican Indian art that represents the Aztecs which are a civilization in Mexico’s past. Filiberto was a crazy man who lives alone and makes special room in his basement for Chac Mool. The narrator seems to think that some of Filiberto’s writings are written from another person like a child. 

Just like noche boca arriba in Chac Mool’s ending made a reader think is his dream a reality. All the time the narrator thought Filiberto was just crazy and that Chac Mool could never be real, at the end of the story the narrador makes the reader think that Chac Mool is actually real.