Question

This novel's protagonist cannot think “in terms of blacks and whites, goods and evils, God and the devil” in a lengthy second-person passage. This novel's narrator notes he didn't know he could “urinate without being aware of it” while struggling (15[1])to (-5[1])make sense of voices nearby. On the Cocuya estate, (15[1])the mother of this novel's protagonist, Isabel, is assaulted by (15[1])Atanasio. A lawyer (15[1])in this novel, who notes how (*) corruption can make revolutions fail before being (-5[1])executed (10[1])by firing squad, (-5[1])is the son of Father Paez (10[1]-5[3])(“PAH-ayss”). Gonzalo Bernal is betrayed by (10[1])the protagonist of this novel, who runs away with Lunero to Veracruz. (10[1])In this novel, Catalina and Teresa sit by the (-5[1])protagonist's (10[1]-5[1])bedside, (10[3])hoping (10[1])to (10[2])learn the contents (10[2])of his will. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, name this (10[1])novel (10[1]-5[1])about the last days of (10[1])a Mexican tycoon (10[1]-5[1])by Carlos (10[2])Fuentes. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[4])

ANSWER: The Death of Artemio Cruz [or La Muerte de Artemio Cruz]
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